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<p>This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power, and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers <i>Signs</i> essays on women in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and attempt to gain political, economic, and legal rights.</p> <p>This collection shows Islam to be a diverse set of variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect, and class, as well as by responses to many cultural and economic processes. In examining women's participation in religious and nationalist projects, these critics debate controversial issues: Does Islamic feminism provide an alternative, revolutionary paradigm to Eurocentric liberal humanism and western feminism? Is Islam more oppressive to women than the modern secular state? How are the lives and texts of Arab and Muslim women constructed for local or western consumption? These essays expose the shortcomings of the secularist assumptions of many recent feminist

Author

Therese Saliba; Amal Amireh; Therese Saliba; Carolyn Allen; Judith A. Howard

Publisher

University of Chicago Press Journals

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226734286

Subjects

Gender Studies, Islam, Sociology

Rating

4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14