Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women's limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur'an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women's perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.

Demonstrates how rural women's limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender Argues that rural women's perception of power and gender is not ahistorical or acultural Analyses how rural Muslim women of Bangladesh perceive power, powerlessness, and gender and how their perception is linked with their lived experience of religion

Autorentext

Sarwar Alam is a lecturer at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Geography and Demography.- Chapter 3: Self, Identity, and Individuality.- Chapter 4: Women's Perceptions of Agency and Power.- Chapter 5: Sources of Power and Agency.- Chapter 6: Barriers to Women's Power and Agency.- Chapter 7: Construction of Gender and Gender Ideology.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.