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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Feminism

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Mulki Al-Sharmani undertakes a close textual analysis of the hermeneutics of selected Islamic feminism scholars as they engage with the Qur’an, Hadith, and different textual genres in Islamic interpretive tradition.She focuses on the relevant works of nine prominent scholars located in North America, Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa.
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The Problematic of gender between Islamic thought and Islamic Feminism

open access: yesمجلة التمكين الاجتماعي
Feminism is a social movement that emerged to correct the status of women in European society after the French Revolution of 1789. It reflects the social and intellectual conditions European societies had reached at that time, which pushed this broad ...
Walid Arroussi, Ihsene Berradjel
doaj   +1 more source

Rearticulating Islamic Feminism

open access: yesMartabat: Jurnal Perempuan dan Anak, 2023
This article explores the role and impact of the Indonesian Women Ulema Congress—Kongres Ulama Perempuan Indonesia (KUPI) in shaping the narrative of Islamic feminism and public policy regarding gender issues in Indonesia. This movement faces challenges from both cultural (patriarchal culture) and conservative religious views that reject the narrative ...
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Musawah Movement’s Activism for Women’s Rights as Strengthening the Trend of Islamic Feminism

open access: yesChrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka
The article addresses contemporary discussions of gender equality in Muslim communities, where Islamic feminism has emerged as a movement that does not reject the core values of Islam and its doctrine but attempts to reread the Quran from a women’s ...
Żaklina Dworska
doaj   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Islamic Feminists' Perception of Good Governance [PDF]

open access: yesرهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2019
The present article first examines the views of Islamic feminists such as Mernissi, Ahmad and Al-Hibri on good governance, and then examines their ideas from the perspective of the official Islam.
Amir mohammad Haji yousefi   +2 more
doaj  

Contemporary Global Feminism Trends and Cultural Barriers to Women's Empowerment in Pakistan, An Islamic Perspective

open access: yesپاکستان جرنل آف اسلامک فلاسفی, 2023
This research examines the intersection of global feminist trends with Pakistan's sociocultural landscape, considering the implications for women's empowerment from an Islamic perspective.
Dr. Usman Qais
doaj  

Islamic Feminism Revisited [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2011
Women in almost every Muslim society have placed issues of women's rights firmly at the heart of their societies' politics. Women-centered secular religious and/or nonreligious perspectives and activities, through their resistance against Islamist gender politics, have introduced a new dynamism into debates over religion and the secular and the ...
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