Adversarial Islamic Feminism

Islam and Feminism within the Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-94-6372-823-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations. It highlights how adversarial Islamic feminism uses social media to spread intersectional feminist messages, creating virtual communities that both support and challenge these ideas. The book showcases the diversity within Islamic practices and the lived experiences of women beyond the gatekeeping authoritative interpretations of Sunni Islamic theology. It presents adversarial Islamic feminism as existing in a "borderland" between Islam and feminism, questioning and reshaping their confluence. This space allows for a vibrant dialogue that bridges Western and Islamic feminist perspectives, offering a new view on the intersection of these identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mincheva, Dilyana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: El Saadawi’s Dissident Feminist Project: Legacy of a Double Struggle, for Gender Justice and against Imperialism

Chapter 2: Reform and Utopia in Canadian Islamic Feminism: The Contradictory Project of Irshad Manji

Chapter 3: Mona Eltahawy: Adversarial Islamic Feminism Within the Western-Islamic Public Sphere

Chapter 4: Halla Diyab’s Adversarial Feminism – Between Islam and Secularity, Between Power and Resistance, Between Syria and England

Chapter 5: Waad Al-Kateab’s For Sama: Cinematic Islamic Feminism and the Female War Gaze

Chapter 6: Deeyah Khan’s Radical Care: Vulnerability and Border Inside Global, Mediatized Intersectional Feminism

Conclusions

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mincheva, Dilyana
Dilyana Mincheva, an Associate Professor at McMaster University, researches Islamic feminism and Islam's intellectual/public aspects in indigenous/diasporic settings. She is the author of The Politics of Western Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West(Liverpool University Press, 2016/2022) and other works on religious agency, social media activism, and Islamic media arts.