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Murchidat: the revival of Female Islamism as a form of State control over the religious discourse in Morocco

Feminismo/s, 2015
This article describes the training program for college students to become murchidat, female religious guides. The Moroccan state has developed and codified this new category since 2004, showing a traditional transmission of Islam by female and shaking ...
Mariví Pérez Mateo
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Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia Au‐delà des mots : raison publique non dialogique dans la Tunisie (post)révolutionnaire

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
wiley   +1 more source

Active Resistors: The Women of Post-Revolution Iran [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, I challenge the notion that Muslim or Middle Eastern women are passive acceptors of discrimination. After examining how Iranian women resisted governmental discrimination following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, I consider a number of ...
Mouritsen, Sofia E.
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Introduction: Beyond public reason Introduction : Par‐delà la raison publique

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race,
Charis Boutieri, Samuel Sami Everett, Erica Weiss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking Muslim Subaltern through the Ethical Agent in Shakespeare and the Holy Quran

Critical Literary Studies, 2021
William Shakespeare, the English bard of Avon, inaugurates a Feminist approach in Love’s labour’s Lost which is comparable with the Holy Quran’s mandate and Hadith.
Fahimeh Khalili teilami, Jalal Sokhanvar
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Women Judges and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan [PDF]

, 2017
Although the first appointment of women judges in Pakistan dates back to 1974, the massive appointment of “lady judges” in the past decade has caused a jump in female representation in the judiciary to more than one third – a quiet move
Holden, Livia
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
wiley   +1 more source

What All Americans Should Know About Islamic Feminism [PDF]

, 2017
The concept of Islamic feminism depicts the history of Muslim women seeking gender equality on the basis of religion. Through rooting gender equality in the texts and practices of the Qur\u27an, Muslim women demand acknowledgement in society based on ...
Bosworth, Caroline M.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source