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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 191 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814773055
  • 0814773052
  • 9780814790724
  • 0814790720
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islam of her own.DDC classification:
  • 297.082 22
LOC classification:
  • BP173.4 .H34 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 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

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

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.

Print version record.

"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.