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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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The Problematic of gender between Islamic thought and Islamic Feminism

مجلة 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
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Islamic Feminism

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

Chrześcijaństwo-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
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Islamic Feminism Revisited [PDF]

Comparative 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

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

رهیافتهای 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, Fahimeh Azmoudeh, Reza Khorasani   +2 more
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Contemporary Global Feminism Trends and Cultural Barriers to Women's Empowerment in Pakistan, An Islamic Perspective

پاکستان 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
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REPRESENTATION OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM IN ABIDAH EL KHALIEQY’S NOVELS

Litera, 2019
The Indonesian literary tradition during the reform period was marked by the rise of female writers who raised the issue of feminism. Within the framework of locality and contextuality, the feminism movement echoed by female writers comes in diverse ...
Dipa Nugraha, Suyitno Suyitno
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