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- Book Title
- An Islam of Her Own
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- ISBN
- 9780814773048
- Subject Area
- Religion, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Islam of Her Own : Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Subject
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Islamic Studies, Islam / General
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0.4 in
- Author
- Sherine Hafez
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- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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- United States
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814773044
ISBN-13
9780814773048
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99539541
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Islam of Her Own : Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Islamic Studies, Islam / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-003189
Reviews
“Exquisitely captures the multi-faceted desires that draw Egyptian women into Islamic beliefs and practices. Compelling insights, challenging to key standing theories. Powerfully and convincingly argued.” -Suad Joseph,editor of Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, ( “Emphasizing narratives that explore modern selfhood and identity politics among Islamic activist women, Hafez examines the many contexts that transcend an opposition between religion and secularism. This timely, excellent book formulates new methodological and theoretical approaches relevant to anthropology, religious studies, gender studies, and Middle East studies.” )-(Susan Slyomovics),(co-editor of Women and Power in the Middle East ), ( “Exquisitely captures the multi-faceted desires that draw Egyptian women into Islamic beliefs and practices. Compelling insights, challenging to key standing theories. Powerfully and convincingly argued.” )-(Suad Joseph),(editor of Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures ), This is an excellent absorbing study of contemporary activism in educated professional Muslim women., “This is an excellent absorbing study of contemporary activism in educated professional Muslim women.”- The Muslim World Book Review, “This book makes an excellent contribution to Islamic social movement research by challenging the binary categories of religion” and “secular” discourses that have been used to previously evaluate the goals and motivations underpinning Islamic activism.”, ( “A lucid account of the personal, community, and national forces that shape Egyptian Muslim women who engage in social activism as part of their commitment to religious ideals. This book seeks to go beyond the usual dichotomies that pit the secular and modern against the religious and traditional.” )-(Marnia Lazreg),(author of Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women ), Emphasizing narratives that explore modern selfhood and identity politics among Islamic activist women, Hafez examines the many contexts that transcend an opposition between religion and secularism. This timely, excellent book formulates new methodological and theoretical approaches relevant to anthropology, religious studies, gender studies, and Middle East studies., “This book makes an excellent contribution to Islamic social movement research by challenging the binary categories of “religion” and “secular” discourses that have been used to previously evaluate the goals and motivations underpinning Islamic activism.”- Mobilization, “An informative, critical engagement of the interplay of feminism and religion in a postcolonial society.” -A. Madhi, Choice, (“This unique study of the personal narratives of women active in Islamic charity organizations in Cairo allows us to glimpse the surprisingly complicated and contemporary meanings for them of ‘Islam as a way of living.'”)-(Lila Abu-Lughod),(author of Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories ), This unique study of the personal narratives of women active in Islamic charity organizations in Cairo allows us to glimpse the surprisingly complicated and contemporary meanings for them of & Islam as a way of living., An Islam of Her Ownmakes important contributions to our understanding of contemporary forms of Islamic activism and will be of great use to students and scholars in the fields of women’s studies, anthropology and Middle East studies.-, “A unique and thought-provoking study of women’s Islamic activism in Egypt.”-Nadine Muller and Claire O’Callaghan, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, A lucid account of the personal, community, and national forces that shape Egyptian Muslim women who engage in social activism as part of their commitment to religious ideals. This book seeks to go beyond the usual dichotomies that pit the secular and modern against the religious and traditional., “Emphasizing narratives that explore modern selfhood and identity politics among Islamic activist women, Hafez examines the many contexts that transcend an opposition between religion and secularism. This timely, excellent book formulates new methodological and theoretical approaches relevant to anthropology, religious studies, gender studies, and Middle East studies.” -Susan Slyomovics,co-editor of Women and Power in the Middle East, “This unique study of the personal narratives of women active in Islamic charity organizations in Cairo allows us to glimpse the surprisingly complicated and contemporary meanings for them of ‘Islam as a way of living.'”-Lila Abu-Lughod,author of Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories, An informative, critical engagement of the interplay of feminism and religion in a postcolonial society., “A lucid account of the personal, community, and national forces that shape Egyptian Muslim women who engage in social activism as part of their commitment to religious ideals. This book seeks to go beyond the usual dichotomies that pit the secular and modern against the religious and traditional.” -Marnia Lazreg,author of Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women, Exquisitely captures the multi-faceted desires that draw Egyptian women into Islamic beliefs and practices. Compelling insights, challenging to key standing theories. Powerfully and convincingly argued., This unique study of the personal narratives of women active in Islamic charity organizations in Cairo allows us to glimpse the surprisingly complicated and contemporary meanings for them of ‘Islam as a way of living.’
Dewey Edition
22
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Dewey Decimal
297.082
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 1 Introducing Desiring Subjects 2 Writing Religion: Islam and Subjectivity 3 Women’s Islamic Movements in the Making 4 An Islam of Her Own: Narratives of Activism 5 Desires for Ideal Womanhood 6 Development and Social Change: Mehmeit 7 Reconsidering Women’s Desires in Islamic Movements Glossary Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Synopsis
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. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on women’s Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a women’s Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular., Focuses on women’s Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities
LC Classification Number
BP173.4.H34 2011
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