Ibtissam Bouachrine's Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique calls for a shift away from the unproductive paradigm of "us" vs. the West that has informed discourse on Muslim women and feminism in the post-9/11 era. Bouachrine challenges and calls for further challenge to the long-celebrated myths and ideologies that have circulated in academic and non-academic circles about Muslim women and the role of feminism, both within and outside the Muslim world.
Ibtissam Bouachrine's Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique calls for a shift away from the unproductive paradigm of "us" vs. the West that has informed discourse on Muslim women and feminism in the post-9/11 era. Bouachrine challenges and calls for further challenge to the long-celebrated myths and ideologies that have circulated in academic and non-academic circles about Muslim women and the role of feminism, both within and outside the Muslim world.
Ibtissam Bouachrine is professor and chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese and former director of the Middle East studies program at Smith College, where she teaches courses on gender and sexuality, Islam and the West, Islamic Spain, and minorities in North Africa and the Middle East. Bouachrine's first book, Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and Limits of Feminist Critique examines the discourse on Muslim women from the Middle Ages to the post-9/11 era.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: Dangerous Myths: Muslim Women Before the Age of Orthodoxy Chapter 2: Sex in Context: Western Representations and the Limits of Edward Said's Orientalism Chapter 3: Sacred Limits: Islamic Feminism, or Feminism Confined Chapter 4: Veiled Apologies: Muslim Women and The Truth about Choice Chapter 5: The Fallen Queens of Islam: How the Arab Revolutions Are Failing Women
Chapter 1: Dangerous Myths: Muslim Women Before the Age of Orthodoxy Chapter 2: Sex in Context: Western Representations and the Limits of Edward Said's Orientalism Chapter 3: Sacred Limits: Islamic Feminism, or Feminism Confined Chapter 4: Veiled Apologies: Muslim Women and The Truth about Choice Chapter 5: The Fallen Queens of Islam: How the Arab Revolutions Are Failing Women
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