Ibtissam Bouachrine

Women and Islam (eBook, PDF)

Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Muslim women of all ages, economic status, educational backgrounds, sexual orientations, and from different parts of historically Muslim countries suffer the kinds of atrocities that violate common understandings of human rights and are normally denounced as criminal or pathological, yet these actions are sustained because they uphold some religious doctrine or some custom blessed by local traditions. Ironically, while instances of abuse meted out to women and even female children are routine, scholarship about Muslim women in the post 9/11 era has rarely focused attention on them, preferring to speak of women's agency and resistance. Too few scholars are willing to tell the complicated, and at times harrowing, stories of Muslim women's lives. Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique radically rethinks the celebratory discourse constructed around Muslim women's resistance. It shows instead the limits of such resistance and the restricted agency given women within Islamic societies. The book does not center on a single historical period. Rather, it is organized as a response to five questions that have been central to upholding the 'resistance discourse': What is the impact of the myth of al-Andalus on a feminist critique? What is the feminist utility of Edward Said's theory of Orientalism? Is Islam compatible with a feminist agenda? To what extent can Islamic institutions, such as the veil, be liberating for women? Will the current Arab uprisings yield significant change for Muslim women? Through examination of these core questions, Bouachrine calls for a shift in the paradigm of discourse about feminism in the Muslim world. Cover images provided by Tachfine Bouachrine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978749573
• Artikelnr.: 74830115

Autorenporträt

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