Transnational Feminism, Islam, and the Other Woman: How to Teach

Abstract

The author argues that “the progressive scholar engaging women’s issues in the Muslim world must strive to do three things: historicize feminism, historicize Islam, and highlight the complexities of representation” – and she explains how.

Doing Nonideal Theory About Gender in Global Contexts

“…See, e.g.,Razakh 2008;Mahmood 2005;Bangstad 2011;Gurel 2009;Maira 2009;Volpp 2011; Scott 2010. 6 I argue in Khader 2018b, however, that the excessive emphasis on agency in women's empowerment discourses unnecessarily burdens them with the responsibility of ending their oppression.7 Of course, feminist autonomy theorists can claim that we have rehabilitated autonomy in ways immune to Mahmood's criticism, but this misses the fact that her criticism is of an "imaginary of autonomy" governed by certain metaphors and associations, not just a definition.© 2021 The Author.…”