Secularism Women The State

Author : Nadje Al-Ali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521785049

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Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East by Nadje Al-Ali Pdf

A considerable literature has been devoted to the study of Islamic activism. By contrast, Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt. In so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims and demonstrates how they fight for their rights and confront conservative forces. Al-Ali's book also takes issue with prevailing constructions of 'the West' and its perceived dichotomous relation to 'the East'. The argument is constructed around interviews which afford fascinating insights into the history of the women's movement in Egypt, notions about secularism and how Islamist constituencies have impacted on women's activism generally. The balance between the empirical and conceptual material is adeptly handled. The author frames her work in the context of current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and post-colonial scholarship: while some of the ideas are complex, her lucid style means they are always comprehensible; the book will therefore appeal to students, as well as to scholars in the field.

Author : Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar
Publisher : ISSSC
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0692003282

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Secularism, Women & the State by Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar Pdf

Author : Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691197227

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Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott Pdf

"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description

Author : Chiara Maritato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836524

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Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey by Chiara Maritato Pdf

A fascinating ethnography of the Diyanet's women sessions in Istanbul illuminating the current reconfigurations of Islam in Turkey.

Author : Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0511329105

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Secularism, gender and the state in the Middle East by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali Pdf

Author : Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231162487

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Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference by Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden Pdf

Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.

Author : Chiara Maritato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1108873839

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Women, Religion and the State in Contemporary Turkey by Chiara Maritato Pdf

"Since the early 2000s, the Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has considerably increased the number of women employed as religious officers. The book sheds light on the significance of this policy and retraces the broader political framework in which the process has been taking shape. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observations of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul mosques, the work breaks new ground on two fronts: on the one side, it elucidates how women access to Diyanet bureaucracy has resulted in a slow but unavoidable transformation of gender roles within Islamic institutions. The emergence of a pious, modern and highly educated woman determined to gain visibility in the (religious) public realm informs about state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. On the other side, the book illuminates on a broader reformulation of the religious services for women and families as a pervasive moral support which penetrates and reshapes the spaces of the secular. In this vein, the work scrutinizes the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which the continuous evolutions of Turkish secularism are investigated"--

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521517805

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Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion by Ahmet T. Kuru Pdf

Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

Author : Bruce J. Berman,Rajeev Bhargava,André Laliberté
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774825153

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Secular States and Religious Diversity by Bruce J. Berman,Rajeev Bhargava,André Laliberté Pdf

Nation-states have seen the rise of religious pluralism within their borders, brought about by global migration and the challenge of radical religious movements. This book explores the meaning of secularism and religious freedom in these new contexts. The contributors chart the impact of globalization, the varying forms of secularism in Western states, and the different kinds of relations between states and religious institutions in the historical traditions and contemporary politics of Islamic, Indic, and Chinese societies. They also examine the limitations and dilemmas of governmental responses to unprecedented diversity, and grapple with the question of how secular states deal (and should deal) with such pluralism.

Author : Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231536042

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Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference by Linell E. Cady,Tracy Fessenden Pdf

Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty by drawing on diverse voices and traditions in studies that historicize, question, and test the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than position secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, this volume shows both religion and the secular collaborate in creating the conditions that generate them.

Author : Giorgia Baldi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030792978

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Un-Veiling Dichotomies by Giorgia Baldi Pdf

This book analyzes the implication of secular/liberal values in Western and human rights law and its impact on Muslim women. It offers an innovative reading of the tension between the religious and secular spheres. The author does not view the two as binary opposites. Rather, she believes they are twin categories that define specific forms of lives as well as a specific notion of womanhood. This divergence from the usual dichotomy opens the doors for a reinterpretation of secularism in contemporary Europe. This method also helps readers to view the study of religion vs. secularism in a new light. It allows for a better understanding of the challenges that contemporary Europe now faces regarding the accommodation of different religious identities. For instance, one entire section of the book concerns the practice of veiling and explores the contentious headscarf debate. It features case studies from Germany, France, and the UK. In addition, the analysis combines a wide range of disciplines and employs an integrated, comparative, and inter-disciplinary approach. The author successfully brings together arguments from different fields with a comparative legal and political analysis of Western and Islamic law and politics. This innovative study appeals to students and researchers while offering an important contribution to the debate over the role of religion in contemporary secular Europe and its impact on women’s rights and gender equality.

Author : Raja Rhouni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047429609

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Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi by Raja Rhouni Pdf

This book offers a thorough and critical analysis of the work of one of the major figures in “Islamic feminism,” Fatima Mernissi. This work traces Mernissi’s intellectual trajectory from “secular” to “Islamic feminism” in order to engage in the theorization of this emerging feminism.

Author : Sara R. Farris
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372929

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In the Name of Women's Rights by Sara R. Farris Pdf

Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.

Author : Jonathan Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107076747

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Political Secularism, Religion, and the State by Jonathan Fox Pdf

This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008. While both sides were active, the religious side had considerably more success. The book examines how states supported religion as well as how they restricted it.

Author : Jennifer Selby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137011329

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Questioning French Secularism by Jennifer Selby Pdf

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim women in ways that obscure their engagement with laïcité (French secularism).