Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism The Limits of Postmodern Analysis

Name: Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism The Limits of Postmodern Analysis
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ISBN: 9781856495905

ISBN-10: 1856495906

ISBN-13: 9781856495905

Edition: 1999

Authors: Haideh Moghissi

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Islam has been demonised for its gender practices like no other religion. This book analyses that Orientalism with particular reference to representations of Muslim women. It describes the real sexual politics of Islam and the West's response to it.

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 7/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Haideh Moghissi is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.



Preface


Introduction



Oriental Sexuality: Imagined and Real


Muslim Women Imagined


The Islamic Concept of Sexuality



From Orientalism to Islamic Feminism


A Breakthrough in Studies of Gender and Islam


The Construction of a New 'Muslim Woman'


The Veil as a Tool of Empowerment?



Postmodern Relativism and the Politics of Cultural Difference


The Postmodern Frame


Rethinking Modernity in the Middle East?



Islamic Fundamentalism and its Nostalgic Accomplice


Islamic Fundamentalism Defined


The Marriage of Premodern and Postmodern Outlooks



Women, Modernity and Social Change


Mystification of 'Islamic Traditions'


Feminism Revisited



Fundamentalists in Power: Conflict and Compromise


The Islamization Project


Women's Legal Rights in the Family


The Law of Retribution


Paid Work as a Terrain of Contestation


Resistance to the Islamization Project



Islamic Feminism and its Discontents


'Muslim' Feminism and Gender Activism


Silencing the Secular Voices


References


Index