Someone who is highly critical of the islamic feminist project is. Click download or read online button to get feminism and islamic fundamentalism book now. The reality and future of islamic feminism afghanistan al. The first section of this article presents a sampling of the current line of critical feminist critique aimed at islamic feminism. Moving beyond the paradigmatic divides of area studies, comparative studies of south asia, africa and the middle east explores the shared concerns and histories of these regions, offers stimulating perspectives on interdisciplinary debates, and challenges established analytic models. Islamic feminism revisited by haideh moghissi in comparative studies of south asia, africa and the middle east dukeu.
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in islamic societies by tracing the developments in islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. Other than secular feminisms that enrooted in nationalist, islamic modernist, human rights and democratic discourses of the late 19th century. Islamic feminism revisited, comparative studies of south asia. Toward a resolution of the debate, signs 27 4 2002, pp. Women, modernization and revolution in iran haideh moghissi. Islam, feminism, and islamic feminism between inadequacy and inevitability fatima seedat this essay argues for maintaining a critical space between two intellectual paradigms that inform muslim womens anticolonial equality struggles in the neocolonial present, islam and feminism.
Indian muslim women activists and the reform of muslim personal law1 volume 42 special double issue sylvia vatuk. In a number of articles she targets apologists of the islamic government and uninformed observers who attribute legal changes in the islamic republic to the enlightenment of conservative islamists. Moghissi, haideh, feminism and islamic fundamentalism. Someone who is highly critical of the islamic feminist project is haideh moghissi, who asserts that islam and feminism are fundamentally incompatible because islamic scripture contains a highly developed gender hierarchy. Islamic feminism and feminist theory by catherine williams integrated studies final project essay mais 700 submitted to dr. The book describes the gender systems in place in the middle east both before and after the rise of islam. The scholarship on women in islamic societies section describes features that pervade the entire literature.
This article examines developments in cislamic feminism and offers a critique of ffi feminist theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory o alternative to secular feminisms. Women presented the first effective challenge to the islamic regime and the clerical authority in postrevolutionary iran. Paul kellogg in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of. Haideh moghissi is perhaps the most adamant of advocates against the convergence. Muslim diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a groups attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. Patriarchy comes in various shapes and affects women as they grow. Feminism and islamic fundamentalism national library of. Locating islamic feminism as mentioned, islamic feminism is one among the many feminisms of the middle east and a label that came up in the late 20th century. Islamic feminism revisited comparative studies of south asia. Islamic feminism revisited, comparative studies of south. Women, war and fundamentalism in the middle east haideh moghissi, department of sociology, york university.
Womencentered secular religious andor nonreligious perspectives and activities, through their resistance against islamist gender politics, have introduced a new dynamism into debates over religion and the secular and the separation of state and faith. Feminism and islamic fundamentalism download ebook pdf. Jan 01, 2011 islamic feminism revisited islamic feminism revisited moghissi, haideh 20110101 00. Islamic feminism is a relatively recent current of thought being developed by a transnational network of activists in widely contrasting sociopolitical contexts. Iranian scholar ziba mirhosseini exposed the rise and use of the term islamic feminism by some women, as well as men, writing in the teheran womens journal. Pdf women in leadership positions is a sensitive issue in most moslem societies. This paper examines the contradictory nature of womens support for the iranian revolution, which severely restricted womens legal and social rights. Women in the resistance movement in iran springerlink. Click download or read online button to get populism and feminism in iran book now. She was a founder of the iranian national union of women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving iran in 1984. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Moghadam few debates among expatriate iranian feminists and leftists have been as contentious as that centered on islamic feminism.
Women, war and fundamentalism in the middle east 10. The term islamic feminism began to surface in the 1990s in various global locations. Islamic feminism it later spread to other countries in the. Women in almost every muslim society have placed issues of womens rights firmly at the heart of politics in their societies. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neoconservative feminism. All women, whether or not they are living in religious societies exist in patriarchal realities. A constructive discussion and dialogue about islam and gender has never been free of its controversies. For us this includes social justice, environmental sustainability, an innovative and successful economy and an active participatory.
Haideh moghissi is the author of feminism and islamic fundamentalism 3. Books on islamic feminism freedom from the forbidden. Haideh moghissi, who asserts that islam and feminism are fundamentally incompatible because islamic scripture contains a highly developed gender hierarchy. What did it mean to want to be a member of a religious community considered to be. Regarding islamic feminism, moghissi haideh does not contest, from a modernsecular perspective, the compatibility between the two ideologies, feminism being sufficiently varied and flexible to include the islamic position. Islamic feminism the term islamic feminism was first used in the 1990s. Women in almost every muslim society have placed issues of womens rights firmly at the heart of their societies politics. Womens activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism.
Cssaame publishes articles from around the world, providing a distinctive link. Feminist discourse, and particularly the struggle to include the element of choice in womens lives and to undo the social construction of gender, are new developments in. A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual. Books on islamic feminism below is a list of books that i recommend to anyone interested in understanding reinterpretations of islam, alternative readings to the traditionalist ones that are largely patriarchal in nature, or otherwise scholarship that complicate simplified ideas of islam, women, gender, and sexuality. In the past, these discussions were mainly shaped by orientalist. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Her second book, feminism and islamic fundamentalism, won the choice outstanding academic books award for sociology. Women, war and fundamentalism in the middle east haideh moghissi a constructive discussion and dialogue about islam and gender has never been free of its controversies. The religious revivalism in the middle east and the outright suppression of womens legal rights and personal freedoms by islamic states in iran, afghanistan and sudan has another side to it which is often overlooked or at least not sufficiently appreciated. Request pdf feminism, islamic women in almost every muslim society have placed issues of womens rights firmly at the heart of politics in their societies. Or as haideh moghissi puts it the idea of islam as a kind of metaculture obscures the reality that there are as many islams as the conditions. An accessible introduction to postmodernism, feminist theory and islamic fundamentalism, this book is a highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism which looks at what happens when they are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of islam. Or as haideh moghissi puts it the idea of islam as a kind of metaculture obscures the reality that there are as many islams as the conditions that sustain them as many islamic cultures.
May 01, 2011 women in almost every muslim society have placed issues of womens rights firmly at the heart of their societies politics. This essay questions the outcome for women who in their continued and persistent intellectual tendencies push for islamic feminism as the only. Islamic feminism revisited islamic feminism revisited moghissi, haideh 20110101 00. The reality and future of islamic feminism afghanistan.
At the same time, we should not yet forget the danger moghissi pointed out. Haideh moghissi is a professor of sociology and womens studies at york university in toronto. I especially note the development of a new brand of feminism in the middle east. My aim in this article is to discuss islamic feminism in iran. Haideh moghissi, who asserts that islam and feminism are fundamen tally incompatible. Haideh moghissi is professor of sociology and womens studies, and a pierre elliot trudeau fellow at york university in toronto.
Ghoussoub, afsaneh najmabadi, haleh afshar, haideh moghissi, and hammed shahidian have described adherence to islamic norms and laws, and often the content of those norms and laws, as the source of womens oppression and the main impediment to womens advancement in the middle east and north africa. Women who joined the revolutionary movement during the late 1970s fell basically into three categories, as the appeal of revolutionary promises varied according to womens social origins, class interests and ideological orientation. Feminism, islamic moghissi major reference works wiley. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated.
Like secular feminist theories, what works for muslims in southern california may not work in rural afghanistan, and neither can dictate feminism for the. More recently, islamic feminism has been described as broadening the scope of western feminism because of its emphasis on community and belonging. Theorizing the politics of islamic feminism shahrzad mojab q abstract. This edited volume, according to the introduction by haideh moghissi, is an attempt at challenging the notion of a single, homogeneous islamic culture xvii. The task has been how to explain the stubborn survival of traditions and practices hostile to women in islamic societies without adding to the arsenal of racist imagery about. Like secular feminist theories, what works for muslims in southern california may not work in rural afghanistan, and neither can dictate feminism for the other. Pdf women and gender in islam download full pdf book download. Womencentered secular religious andor nonreligious perspectives and activities, through their resistance against islamist gender. Scholar haideh moghissi argues that speeches made by daneshgari during her 1979 campaign reflects deficiency in understanding gender issues in contemporary iran, because she did not criticize constitution of the islamic republic of iran for emphasizing motherhood and their role in reproduction and instead made remarks about why women could be. The growing presence and visibility of muslims in european liberal democracies and the post911 war on terror context has given urgency to.
The limits of postmodern analysis by haideh moghissi isbn. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. All content in this area was uploaded by haideh moghissi on oct 21, 2015. Locating islamic feminism as mentioned, islamic feminism is one among the many feminisms of the middle east and a label.
The limits of postmodern analysis alali, nadje 20000301 00. The limits of postmodern analysis by haideh moghissi, american journal of sociology 106, no. Consequently, moghissi doubts the possibility of developing a programme of social and legal rights for women within. Women, modernization and revolution in iran haideh. In the opposite camp, haideh moghissi has criticized expatriate feminists for their supposed fascination with islamic feminism. Womencentered secular religious andor nonreligious perspectives and activities, through their resistance against islamist gender politics, have. Islamic feminism and feminist theory by catherine williams. Populism and feminism in iran womens struggle in a male. I focus on the iranian debate, although there has been a wider and longstanding debate among feminists within middle east womens studies regarding veiling. Consequently, moghissi doubts the possibility of developing a programme of social and legal rights for women within islamic parametersas these, for her, are inherently antithetical to the. By the late 1990s, when the term islamic feminism had become current, it came under scrutiny e. Haideh moghissi, and hammed shahidian have described adherence to islamic norms and laws, and often the content of those norms and laws, as the source of.
Across the americas, abortion laws are harming health and security by angelika albaladejo in world policy journal dukeu. One feature is that the studies tend to align themselves on a spectrum between two interpretive poles, one relatively negative, the other positive, about the situation of women in islamic societies. Populism and feminism in iran download ebook pdf, epub. A major feminist critique of islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the islamic identity of muslim women.
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