Globalization And Womens Rights Islamic Traditions Of Modernity In A Transnational Womens Education Project
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| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2012 |
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In the post 9/11 era, international interest in modernizing Muslim societies reinvigorated the focus on Muslim women as the indicator of progress. In this narrative of progress, the Western and Muslim states as well as the international development agencies highlight women's education as central to gender empowerment and modernization in Muslim societies. In order to examine the processes that produce "modern Muslim womanhood," my ethnographic dissertation study focuses on a transnational women's education project, founded and managed by Muslim women of Pakistani American origin, to support education for girls from low-income communities in Pakistan. My analytic chapters follow the processes through which this particular transnational development organization defines quality education, gender empowerment, and community participation. First, I investigate how the women teachers, recruited and trained by this organization, employ the notion of wisdom to construct their identities as modern educated women. These identity construction processes that embody particular conceptualization of human rights and family honor reflect an overlap of local and global discourses on Muslim womanhood and modernity. Second, I show how the constitution and leadership of the organization shape the meaning and implementation of quality education and gender empowerment at the intersection of class, gender, and religion. Quality education is defined as a process to equip women teachers and students with economic and cultural tools to claim the middle-class status, whereas gender empowerment is seen as a collective progress of women, families, and communities. Next, I focus on the day-to-day workings of the organization to shows how it employs what I call collaborative strategies to support gender empowerment in different communal contexts. These strategies aim to achieve the radical vision of transforming patriarchal structures, but uses negotiations in contrast to the confrontational strategies often associated with the international development agencies and NGOs working on gender-focused projects in Muslim countries. I conclude by arguing for the need to bring in local and global contexts as overlapping and co-constructed sites to examine the production of modern Muslim womanhood.
| Author | : Lisa K. Taylor |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2014-06-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317683056 |
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power plays of empire, this volume examines the popular and widespread production and reception of Muslim women’s lives and narratives in literature, poetry, cinema, television and popular culture within the politics of a post-9/11 world. This edited collection provides a timely exploration into the pedagogical and ethical possibilities opened up by transnational, feminist, and anti-colonial readings that can work against sensationalized and stereotypical representations of Muslim women. It addresses the gap in contemporary theoretical discourse amongst educators teaching literary and cultural texts by and about Muslim Women, and brings scholars from the fields of education, literary and cultural studies, and Muslim women’s studies to examine the politics and ethics of transnational anti-colonial reading practices and pedagogy. The book features interviews with Muslim women artists and cultural producers who provide engaging reflections on the transformative role of the arts as a form of critical public pedagogy.
| Author | : J. Bayes |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2016-09-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137043784 |
In the early 1970s accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably authorized by religion has been central to these movements. At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women's health, and women's rights as human rights. In this book, scholars from eight different Muslim and Catholic communities analyze the political strategies that women are employing in these contexts ranging from acceptance of traditional doctrines to various forms of resistance, religious reinterpretation, innovation, and political action toward change and equal rights.
| Author | : Zakia Belhachmi |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9087905793 |
From a rationale of multiculturalism and a based on systemic approach grounded in the Arab-Islamic tradition, this book integrates history, education, science, and feminism to understand the implications of culture in social change, cultural identity, and cultural exchange.
| Author | : Nilgun Anadolu-Okur |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Muslim women |
| ISBN | : 9781443813099 |
In this interdisciplinary volume, Dr. NilgÃ1/4n Anadolu-Okur aims to communicate a constructive analysis of Muslim identity, but primarily of Muslim womanhood in the twenty-first century. Her own essay discusses Turkish womenâ (TM)s historical emancipation and Mustafa Kemal Ataturkâ (TM)s reforms. The other contributors focus on civil, political and international human rights, family laws, honor killings, ethical and gender issues, education, participation in civil life, modernism versus conservatism, life in gated communities, and professional goals and rights of Muslim women under Shariâ (TM)a law throughout a wide range of countries where Islam is not only the established faith of the land but a principal way of life. Through seven interdisciplinary essays, one play and an interview, the lesser-known aspects of Muslim womanhood in Muslim countriesâ "including Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Lebanonâ "are examined. In addition, the essays depict legal and social impediments faced by Muslims who live in France, Germany and the United States. As an original work this volume seeks to articulate Muslim womenâ (TM)s daily struggles, challenges, choices and needs as they practice their rights of womanhood and motherhood in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Through an accurate analysis, a positive subtext is ultimately provided to Muslim identity, specifically to Muslim womanhood. Like anything else, during the age of globalization Islam is going through a transition. As expressed in this study, amendments to civil and religious laws, modifications in established governmental systems and the prominence of individual rightsâ "as opposed to societal normsâ "coalesce to bring about a contemporary re-assessment of womenâ (TM)s rights within Islam globally. Additionally, this volume intends to articulate the concern commonly shared by various scholars that the Western mind needs to be illuminated and educated concerning racially motivated Eurocentric delineations which tend to dismiss the varied qualities and characteristics of Muslim women who have persevered for centuries under the unbending rule of Muslim men in power. Hence, this pioneering study explores the boundaries of the new female Muslim identity both within and outside the Muslim world at the crossroads of globalism and the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Huma Ahmed-Ghosh |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2015-09-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438457944 |
Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors highlight the fact that secularism has provided the space for some women to reclaim their religious identity and their own feminisms. Through compelling case studies and theoretical discussions, this volume challenges mainstream Western and national feminisms that presume homogeneity of Muslim women's lives to provide a deeper understanding of the multiple realities of feminism in Muslim communities.
| Author | : Sanja Kelly |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 606 |
| Release | : 2010-07-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1442203978 |
Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.
| Author | : Linda Rae Bennett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2005-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113433155X |
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia, the book explores the complex factors that affect how young Indonesian women form their sexual subjectivities, discusses the cultural and historical conditions under which single Muslim women repress or express their sexuality, and examines how the cultural context, including other factors besides Islam, simultaneously influence the ways in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health. It demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality, nor entirely successful in doing so.
| Author | : Cheris Kramarae |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 2050 |
| Release | : 2004-04-16 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1135963150 |
For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
| Author | : Valentine M. Moghadam |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Muslim women |
| ISBN | : 9781588261717 |
Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
