Feminism And Islamic Fundamentalism

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1856495906

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Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam. As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. She argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement postmodernism has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism. A major feminist critique of Islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of Western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. It is urgent reading for all those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X006006561

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Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism with particular reference to representations of Muslim women. It describes the real sexual politics of Islam, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. The author argues that, regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, postmodernism as an intellectual and political movement has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. She demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism. She also asks questions of those who in denouncing the racism of western feminism have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. The book should interest those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.

Author : Shahin Gerami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136509162

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Women and Fundamentalism by Shahin Gerami Pdf

During the past two decades, the surge of religious fundamentalism in the United States and in the Muslim world has resulted in many studies of the status of women and other family issues. This volume is a cross-cultural study of women's social status in Iran, Egypt, and in the U.S. during different stages of religious fundamentalism. In each of these countries, women have been active participants in fundamentalist movements, and this study shows that such participation enables women to reexamine their relationship to power in the family and in society and increase their group solidarity and feminist consciousness. The author combined quantitative, historical, and interview techniques in her analysis, gathering data by administering a questionnaire to middle-class women in the three countries. In Iran, she interviewed selected women leaders about future gender roles in the Islamic Republic. Students in women's studies, Middle Eastern culture, religion, history, sociology, and psychology, and political science will be interested in this publication.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0195793692

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Feminism And Islamic Fundamentalism by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

Author : Lamia Rustum Shehadeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813026067

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The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh Pdf

This book deconstructs the religio-political writings and political practices of the nine Islamic ideologues of the twentieth century who masterminded the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism: Hasan al-Banna, Abu al-'A'la al-Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mortaza Mutahhari, Zaynab al-Ghazali, Hasan al-Turabi, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, and Sheikh Hussein Fadlallah. It demonstrates that although these ideologues have individual peculiarities, their consistent emphasis on the subordinate status of women in society and in their relation to men constitutes a vehicle for attaining political power. Examining the spectrum of 20th-century Islamic fundamentalist discourse on the subordinate role of women, Shehadeh builds a bridge between political ideology and gender theory. She determines how the diversity of political, social, and economic domains within the discourse of the nine ideologues--male or female, Sunni or Shi'ite, radical or moderate--applies to gender relations, and whether their discourse is distinctive or remains within the classical or traditional mold of Islam. She demonstrates that the importance given to gender issues by fundamentalist ideologues and the constraints imposed on women in society are not so much due to patriarchy as to the manipulation of such issues for purely political purposes--to assure overwhelming male support and to divert attention from the real problems of society.

Author : Masoud Kazemzadeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004660913

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Islamic Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Gender Inequality in Iran Under Khomeini by Masoud Kazemzadeh Pdf

Between February 1979 to June 1981, after the Shah had been overthrown, and fundamentalist and non-fundamentalists were struggling for power in Iran, says Kazemzadeh (political science, Utah Valley State College), provides a unique situation in which to study the relationship between Islamic fundamentalism and gender inequality. He writes primarily for undergraduates studying the Middle East, women's studies, and third-world politics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415324211

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Women and Islam: Women's movements in Muslim societies by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.Titles also available in this series include, Shamanism (March 2004, 3 volumes, 395) and the forthcoming titles Childhood (2005, 4 volumes, c.495), Gender (2005, 4 volumes, c.495) and Knowledge (2005, 4 volumes, c.495).

Author : Minoo Moallem
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520938461

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Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister by Minoo Moallem Pdf

Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister responds to a number of important questions raised in connection with 9/11. The author considers how veiling intersects with other identity markers in nation-state building and modern formations of gendered citizenship. She shows how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are fed by a hybrid blend of images and myths of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iran, as well as globally circulated patriarchal ideologies.

Author : Therese Saliba,Carolyn Allen,Judith A. Howard
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8125027424

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Gender, Politics, and Islam by Therese Saliba,Carolyn Allen,Judith A. Howard Pdf

In a time of increasing hostility towards Islam, this collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, these groundbreaking essays focus on the complex relations of power that shape women's negotiations for identity, power, and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book brings together Signs essays on women in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Diaspora, from Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Yemen to explore how women negotiate indigenous identities and attempt to gain political, economic, and legal rights. This collection shows that Islam is a heterogeneous set of historically and contexually variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect, and class, as well as by responses to local and transnational cultural and economic processes. In examining women's participation in religious and nationalist projects, these critics debate controversial issues: Does Islamic feminism provide an alternative, possibly revolutionary paradigm, to Eurocentric liberal humanism and the individualism of western feminism? Is Islam any more oppressive to women than the workings of the modern secular state? How are the lives and texts of Arab and Muslim women discursively constructed for local or western consumption? These essays expose the shortcomings of the secularist assumptions of many recent feminist analyses, which continue to treat religion in general and fundamentalism in particular as a problematic tool of oppression used against women, rather than as a viable form of feminist agency that produces contradictory effects for women participants.

Author : Masoud Kazemzadeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111983354

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Islamic Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Gender Inequality in Iran Under Khomeini by Masoud Kazemzadeh Pdf

Between February 1979 to June 1981, after the Shah had been overthrown, and fundamentalist and non-fundamentalists were struggling for power in Iran, says Kazemzadeh (political science, Utah Valley State College), provides a unique situation in which to study the relationship between Islamic fundamentalism and gender inequality. He writes primarily for undergraduates studying the Middle East, women's studies, and third-world politics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : M. Franks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230598102

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Women and Revivalism in the West by M. Franks Pdf

Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gender boundaries and roles and the blanket subjugation of women. This study aims particularly to establish what the attractions might be for women who choose to swim against the prevailing consumerist current and affiliate themselves with such groups in a liberal democracy.

Author : Faegheh Shirazi
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059105

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Velvet Jihad by Faegheh Shirazi Pdf

There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational community intent on growing women’s rights in the Middle East. There is a large disparity between a Muslim woman's role according to the Qur'an and her role as some corners of Muslim society have interpreted it. In Velvet Jihad Faegheh Shirazi reveals the creative strategies Muslim women have adopted to quietly fight against those who would limit their growing rights. Shirazi examines issues that are important to all women, from routine matters such as daily hygiene and clothing to controversial subjects like abortion, birth control, and virginity. As a woman with linguistic expertise and extensive life experience in both Western and Middle Eastern cultures, she is uniquely positioned as an objective observer and reporter of changes and challenges facing Muslim women globally.

Author : Norani Othman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UOM:39015082713770

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Muslim Women and the Challenge of Islamic Extremism by Norani Othman Pdf

Author : Betsy Reed
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1560254505

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Nothing Sacred by Betsy Reed Pdf

Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.

Author : Margot Badran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744476

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Feminism in Islam by Margot Badran Pdf

While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture. In this career-spanning collection of influential essays, Margot Badran presents the feminisms that Muslim women have created, and examines Islamic and secular feminist ideologies side by side. Borne out of over two decades of work, this important volume combines essays from a variety of sources, ranging from those which originated as conference papers to those published in the popular press. Also including original material written specifically for this book, "Feminism and Islam" provides a unique and wide-ranging contribution to the field of Islam and gender studies.