ISBN:
9789047429609
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World Ser. v.09
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42092
Keywords:
Mernissi, Fatima Criticism and interpretation
;
Feminism Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Feminists
;
Feminist theory
;
Feminism ; Religious aspects ; Islam
;
Feminist theory
;
Feminists ; Morocco
;
Mernissi, Fatima ; Criticism and interpretation
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction Mernissi as a Point of Entry into Islamic Feminism -- Mernissi and Her Critics -- Engaging Islamic Feminist Theory through the Case of Mernissi -- Laying Bare My Assumptions -- Mernissi and Islamic Feminism -- Rise of a Movement(s) and Birth of a Term -- Islamic Feminism: An Oxymoron? -- Problematizing 'Islamic Feminism': What's in a Name? -- Organization of the Book -- PART ONE MERNISSI'S SECULAR CRITIQUE: WRITING THE GENDERED SUBALTERN HISTORY OF MOROCCO -- Chapter One Multiple-Front Postcolonial Feminist Critique -- Revisiting French Colonialism and the 'Emancipation of Women' -- Deconstructing Nationalist Discourse of 'Women's Liberation' -- Uncovering the Political and Economic Instrumentality of Traditional Gender Roles to a Neopatriarchal System -- Chapter Two A Subaltern Critic Unveils the Intersection between Gender and Class Biases in Modernization Policies -- Mernissi's Subaltern Narrative and Conflicts with a Dogmatic Marxist Discourse -- Problematizing Modernization through a Subaltern Narrative -- Foregrounding 'Subaltern Consciousness': Can the Subaltern Be Heard by Mernissi? -- Chapter Three Decentering Feminism, Demystifying the Harem, and Revising 'Muslim History' -- Decentering Feminism -- Demystifying the Harem Using a Double-Front Critique -- In the Silent Margins of Muslim History -- PART TWO BETWEEN SECULARIST AND ISLAMIC FEMINISM -- Chapter Four The Secularist Moment -- Beyond the Veil -- Woman in the Muslim Unconscious -- Chapter Five Revisiting Islam from 'Within' -- L'Amour dans les pays musulmans -- The Veil and the Male Elite -- Islam and Democracy -- Conclusion Toward a Post-foundationalist Islamic Feminism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=489471
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=489471
Permalink