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Philosophical Topics, 2013 This essay discusses the interaction of struggles for gender equality with a plurality of conceptions of freedom in Islamic feminist scholarship and activism. I discuss Islamic feminist critiques of feminism and rights, the concept of Islamic secularism, and the problematization of freedom in relation to women’s piety movements.
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A Review of Islamic Feminism: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Islam by Lana Sirri
Kadem Kadın Araştırmaları DergisiLana Sirri’s Islamic Feminism: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Islam aims to underscore the diversity and significance of Islamic feminism studies by addressing Islam, gender, and sexuality from an intersectional perspective.
Reyyan Demirayak
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Re-Shaping the Boundaries of Feminism: The Case of #femminismoislamico on Instagram
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2023 Although the Italian public discourse is characterized by an underlying Islamophobia and gendered processes of racialization and discrimination, for which the agency of women of Muslim culture is often denied, Italy hosts a growing and increasingly ...
Arianna Mainardi, Alberta Giorgi
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl +5 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao +2 more
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Feminismo/s, 2015 As UNSCR 1325 completes fifteen years, feminism and pacifism need to rethink their relationships with women’s movement in the Middle East. The conflicts in the region have a gender impact that cannot be assessed without analysing the effects of western ...
Magaly Thill
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Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
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Feminism and Islamic Tradition
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1993 "Feminism and Islamic Tradition" explores the territory mapped by Fatima Mernissi in Sultanes oublées (1990) and Le Harem politique: Le Prophète et les femmes (1987) in relation to that charted by Assia Djebar in her latest novel Loin de Médine ...
Winifred Woodhull
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima +7 more
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