An Islam of Her Own

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4052804An Islam of Her Ownhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/an-islam-of-her-own-9780814773055/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2564785/23790e59-a38c-4efb-8069-00e108d8519d.jpg?v=638708210458400000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2561992/23790e59-a38c-4efb-8069-00e108d8519d.jpg?v=638384143202800000523581MXNNYU PressInStock/Ebooks/As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either religious or secular discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the secular and the religious as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on womens Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a womens Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular....3988958An Islam of Her Own523581https://www.gandhi.com.mx/an-islam-of-her-own-9780814773055/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2564785/23790e59-a38c-4efb-8069-00e108d8519d.jpg?v=638708210458400000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2561992/23790e59-a38c-4efb-8069-00e108d8519d.jpg?v=638384143202800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780814773055_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_As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either religious or secular discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the secular and the religious as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on womens Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a womens Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular.(*_*)9780814773055_As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either religious or secular discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the secular and the religious as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on womens Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a womens Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular....9780814773055_NYU Presslibro_electonico_c3df7715-e298-4560-a3aa-f90beedc7c08_9780814773055;9780814773055_9780814773055Sherine HafezInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/nyushort-epub-56e69640-788f-4629-b6ef-d3073ee00bc1.epub2011-04-11T00:00:00+00:00NYU Press