Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-Liberation

This important study examines the cultural turn for women in the Middle East and North Africa, analysing the ways they have adjusted to and at times defended, socially conservative redefinitions of their roles in society in matters of marriage, work and public codes of behavior.

Autorentext

Marnia Lazreg is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Her research interests span constructions of otherness, colonial history, cultural movements, international development, women in the Middle East and North Africa, and postmodernist social theory. She has lectured extensively around the world and participated in radio and television programs. Her most recent publications include Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (2017), Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (2010), and Torture and The Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (2017).

Inhalt

Introduction; Chapter 1 Genealogy of the Cultural Turn; Chapter 2 National Religion and Culture; Chapter 3 Maghrebin Islam and Its Gendered Functions; Chapter 4 The Management of Salafism and Women; Chapter 5 Islamic Feminism in the Shadow of Deradicalization; Chapter 6 Feminist Antecedent Knowledge and Women's Quranic Contextualism; Chapter 7 Postliberation and Quranic Attributor Contextualism; Epilogue; Glossary;