When <scp>I</scp>slam and Feminism Converge

Seedat, Fatima

doi:10.1111/muwo.12022

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Despite these proscriptions upon feminism, Badran explains that this gender activism is a new and "unencumbered, analytic construct, " and its protagonists (amongst them feminists, pro-feminists and Islamists) represent a convergence that "transcends ideological boundaries of politically articulated feminism and Islamism." [58] Our data certainly supports this view.…”

Section: Discussion 51 Two Major Feminist Paradigmssupporting

confidence: 77%

The Shape of Arab Feminism on Facebook

Bunni

Millard

Vass

2018

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science

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Much has been said about the influence of Western culture on social movements worldwide, and this claimed influence has caused some to accuse Arabic feminism of being merely an alien import to the Arab world. New waves of feminism have arisen as a reaction to the claimed prevalent western culture. Global Feminism argues that women worldwide experience similar subjugation in many social constructs because many cultures are based on a patriarchal past, but other waves reject the concept of a universal women's experience and stresses the significance of diversity in women's experiences and see their activities as transnational rather than global. Others expect that the confrontation of secular and Islamist paradigms will dominate. Social Media has global reach, and there are signs that Facebook pages are used by feminists worldwide to boost their social and political activism. Facebook gives public pages' owners the ability to associate their pages with pages with similar ideologies. This provides a global space where feminist pages are clustered and exposes clues about their patterns of influence. By crawling Arabic feminist pages over Facebook, this paper builds a dataset that can be analysed using social network analysis tools and reveals the map of influence between Arabic feminist network and the western, transnational, and Global feminist networks. The map shows that Arabic womens pages are clustered in two segments: Arab feminism, and Sect feminism. The later consists of pages which distance themselves from associating with 'secular' feminism pages whether they are Arabic or not, and in contrary to the former, they are less likely to restrict themselves with national Identity. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and professional topics → Cultural characteristics; Women;

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Section: Discussion 51 Two Major Feminist Paradigmssupporting

confidence: 77%

The Shape of Arab Feminism on Facebook

Bunni

Millard

Vass

2018

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science

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“…How, then, can a reading of feminism be applied to analyse the equality and political subjectivity of Islamic feminist women? Fatima Seedat and others suggest that this is impossible if we continue to draw from 'an incomplete reading of feminism' (Seedat 2013b). I agree with Seedat that the feminist narrative is reductive and assumes a dominant model of assessing Muslim women's identity wherein they are by default 'othered' from the normative standard.…”

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Political Embodiments of the Hijab in Narratives of Iraqi Refugee Women in Diaspora

Jones-Gailani¹

2019

GaV

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This article explores how young displaced Iraqi Sunni Muslim women negotiate religious identity in diaspora, and how veiling becomes an expression of a new politicised Islamic feminism. Veiling continues to be the focus of ideological debates about Islam and women's rights in the Muslim world and in the global diaspora of displaced refugees. Young refugee and migrant women fi nd themselves at the intersection of new and old Muslim communities, secular and religious feminisms, and fi rst-and second-generation ideals of female modesty.Based on oral histories conducted with Arab and Kurdish Sunni Iraqi women now resettled in the Toronto and Detroit areas, the article traces a new trend in grassroots religiosity among young women in diaspora. New forms of a politicised religious subjectivity, in this case through veiling, suggest that these young women actively mobilise around a religiously constituted political consciousness. As a 'speech act' wearing hijab can in part be understood as a political performance that embodies the intersections of religious and non-religious symbolism. As the article argues, it is as migrants located at the intersection of new and old imaginaries of a global Umma that these reimagined religious subjectivities are forged.

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“…1. Introducción E l islam supuso un gran a vance con respecto a los derechos de las mujeres en la sociedad arábica del siglo VII, fuertemente marcada por el patriarcado y el andocentrismo imperantes (Llorent, 2013;Seedat, 2013). El islam establece que: (1) tanto hombres como mujeres serán igualmente recompensados por su quehacer en la tierra (Corán 16:97); (2) las mujeres tienen derecho a heredar (Corán 4:11); (3) éstas reciben una dote en caso de divorcio (Corán 4:4).…”

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“…Es necesario resaltar que el islam prevé una división de roles y responsabilidades entre hombres y mujeres según su naturaleza innata , considerando que ambos roles son complementarios (Seedat, 2013). Hecho que ha generado un profundo debate sobre si el islam promueve o no la desigualdad de género (Bauer, 2009).…”

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Formación de la mujer musulmana en las revistas digitales de DAESH

Navarro-Granados¹

2022

revHUMAN

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En el presente trabajo analizamos la formación de la mujer musulmana en las revistas digitales oficiales del grupo Daesh: Dabiq y Rumiyah. Llevamos a cabo un análisis de contenido cualitativo de los artículos destinados a la mujer musulmana y aquellos en los que se habla específicamente de ellas. Para el análisis de los datos utilizamos el software Atlas.ti. Daesh promueve una clara desigualdad de género, considerando que la mujer musulmana debe ser casta, modesta, obediente, fiel y sumisa. Le otorgan roles tradicionales como madre y esposa. Resulta imperante diseñar medidas educativas preventivas que incluyan la perspectiva del feminismo islámico.

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When Islam and Feminism Converge

Cited by 29 publications

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The Shape of Arab Feminism on Facebook

The Shape of Arab Feminism on Facebook

Political Embodiments of the Hijab in Narratives of Iraqi Refugee Women in Diaspora

Formación de la mujer musulmana en las revistas digitales de DAESH

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