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dc.contributor.authorBAHI, Riham
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-23T08:31:45Z
dc.date.available2011-05-23T08:31:45Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/17294
dc.description.abstractThe role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of women in the Islamic society. This contestation over the meanings attached to women makes the issue of gender a key dimension of contemporary Muslim politics. This paper surveys the growing academic literature on women in Islam and presents two oppositional interpretative and analytical categories: secular modernist and Islamic reformist that both address the traditional, patriarchal Islamic discourse. The dichotomy between the two scholarly discourses emanates from differences in their frames of reference, methodology and outcome. It also presents arguments for synergy between secularism and Islam. My main argument in this paper is that searching for the appropriate framework is vital in understanding women activism in non-Western societies. The appropriate framing of the “Muslim women” question is needed not only for itself, but also because it carries important policy implications. Instead of subsuming the “Muslim women” question directly under the feminist theory, like most scholars do, I argue that we may use the well-developed theory to pose telling questions about the phenomenon, but without supposing that the answers will be the same and without insisting on strict correspondence.en
dc.description.sponsorshipProduct of workshop No. 2 at the 12th MRM 2011
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2011/25en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMediterranean Programme Seriesen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectIslamic feminismen
dc.subjectSecular feminismen
dc.subjectIslamic Secularismen
dc.titleIslamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justiceen
dc.typeWorking Paper
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