Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism
The Limits of Postmodern Analysis
Seiten
1999
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85649-590-5 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85649-590-5 (ISBN)
As well as providing an introduction to postmodernism, feminist theory and Islamic fundamentalism and their illumination of the sexual politics of Islam, the author contrasts the denunciation of racism in Western feminism with the accepted Islamic identity of Muslim women.
A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam.
As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. She argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement postmodernism has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism.
A major feminist critique of Islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of Western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. It is urgent reading for all those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.
A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam.
As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. She argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement postmodernism has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism.
A major feminist critique of Islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of Western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. It is urgent reading for all those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.
Haideh Moghissi is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Atkinson College, York University, Toronto. Before leaving Iran 1984, she was a senior archivist in the Iran National Archives. She was a founder of the National Union of Women and member of its first executive board and the editorial board of Barabari (Equality) and Zanan Dar Mobarezeh (Women in Struggle).
Preface
Introduction
1. Oriental Sexuality: Imagined and Real
2. From Orientalism to Islamic Feminism
3. Postmodern Relativism and the Politics of Cultural Difference
4. Islamic Fundamentalism and its Nostalgic Accomplice
5. Women, Modernity and Social Change
6. Fundamentalists in power: Conflict and Compromise
7. Islamic Feminism and its Discontents
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1999 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85649-590-6 / 1856495906 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85649-590-5 / 9781856495905 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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