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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Islamic feminism"”.
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New Frontiers in Islamic Feminism: How Islamic Feminism is Being Shaped by Digital Media
… examining how Muslim women bloggers ground their feminism in Islam, this research disrupts oppositional framings of Islam and feminism. This study looks at how Muslim women bloggers on the Muslim Girl website highlight the feminist bent of Islamic teachings. The project asks: 1) What are some …
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Debating 'Islamic Feminism': Between Turkish Secular Feminist and North American Academic Critiques
… critical point of view. It takes the debate on Islamic feminism, especially in North American academy as a departure point of a discussion relating that discourse to the western feminist arguments over the usefulness and nature of Islamic feminism. The project has two phases: One summarizes and …
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The evolved radical feminism of spoken word : Alix Olson, C.C. Carter, and Suheir Hammad
Radical feminism is often associated with the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. Although powerful in its goals of solidarity and coalitions, the movement is often criticized for its lack of attention to intersecting systems of power. However, several contemporary feminist spoken word poets are …
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A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?
… theoretical approach to localized Muslim feminism(s) in Aceh, Indonesia, based on interviews with women in Aceh in 2009 and 2010. One of the central aims of this study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of "Islamic" feminism by providing a viable alternative for "Muslim" …
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Complexity of Women's Liberation in the Era of Westernization: Egyptian Islamic and Secular Feminists in Their Own Context
<p>Informed by postcolonial/Islamic feminist theory, this qualitative study explores how Egyptian feminists navigate the political and social influence of the West. The following meta-questions guided this research: How do women in Egypt who self-identify as feminists define feminism? How do they …
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Saudi Women's Self-Identity or Self- Awakening constructing between conservatism and modernization - social and cultural performance in Saudi Arabia
… every aspect of women’s lives, the movement of Islamic feminism has started taking roots to enable Saudi women to seek liberation through non-aggressive means. Some of the first Saudi female activists emerged in the literature and film scene recently, with two of their works – Rajaa Al- Sanea’s …
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Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women
… occupied itself with ideas of ‘traditional’ Islamic dress such as the Hijab, Burka, and the Niqab. Rarely has the image of the Muslim woman moved away from these popular discourses to show the various other forms of dress worn by British Muslim women. Whilst acknowledging that traditional …
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Power, Arab media Moguldum & gender rights as entertainment in the Middle East
… “done” and “undone” to become one via discourse. Islamic feminism speaks of a cultural/religious specificity in defending women rights and even gender diversity based on new Quranic interpretations. The gender, “Al-Naw’u”, remains synonym to sex “Al Jins” as gender and queer theories never …
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Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns
… theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Islamic feminism, and Islamic environmentalism towards the primary goal of making a case for the construction of an ecofeminist theology in Islam. Specifically, I seek to consolidate Islamic feminists and environmental theories and approaches while …
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Bounds of Righteous Agency: The gendered subject of minority rights in contemporary India
… the entanglement of a transnational discourse of Islamic feminism and piety, and a territorially bounded conception of minority rights and Muslim family law. I argue that postcolonial feminist projects map on to normative feminist aims of a struggle against everyday gender inequality while …
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Simin Daneshvar's Savushun: Examining Gender Under Patriarchy
<p>The author covers issues of gender and Iranian national identity as reflected in Iran’s first published woman novelist, Simin Daneshvar. Her novel, <em>Savushun</em>, is the first novel to be published by an Iranianwoman in 1969. The novel depicts Iran at the start of the country’s governmental …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
… from Madina), a novel that re-imagines the early Islamic past through women’s perspectives. Djebar framed the work as an inspired re-reading of the earliest Sunni historiography compendiums: Ibn Hishām’s (d. 828-835) prophetic biography, the biographical dictionary of Ibn Saʿd (d. 845), and the …