An Islam of her own : reconsidering religion and secularism in women's Islamic movements / Sherine Hafez.

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Hafez, Sherine [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780814773055
0814773052
9780814790724
0814790720

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islam of her own.DDC classification:

297.082 22

LOC classification:

BP173.4 .H34 2011eb

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11.84

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Contents:

Introducing desiring subjects -- Writing religion : Islam and subjectivity -- Women's Islamic movements in the making -- An Islam of her own : narratives of activism -- Desires for ideal womanhood -- Development and social change : Mehmeit -- Reconsidering women's desires in Islamic movements.

Summary: "As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the 'secular' and the 'religious' as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism."-- Publisher Description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.

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"As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the 'secular' and the 'religious' as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism."-- Publisher Description

English.

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