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Secular and Religious Feminisms: A Future of Disconnection?

Feminist Theology, 2013
This article identifies a disciplinary disconnection between secular and religious feminisms. While areas of study such as women’s, gender and feminist studies, and disciplines like feminist studies in religion, spirituality and theology advance understanding of gender relations, they are forms of analysis that rarely keep company.
Dawn Llewellyn, Marta Trzebiatowska
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An Appeal for Secular Feminisms in Turkey

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2015
T he military coup in 1980 transitioned Turkey to a neoliberal economic and political development model led by Turgut Ozal, who held high-level positions, including prime minister and president, between 1980 and 1993. Recep Tayyip Erdogan founded the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi; AKP) in 2001 and led it until 2014.
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(Post)secular Feminisms

This chapter explores the intricate interplay between religion, secularism, and feminism, using Malala Yousafzai’s activism and narrative as a focal point. Malala’s advocacy for girls’ education and gender equality, grounded in her Islamic faith, challenges the binary opposition often drawn between religion and secularism in feminist discourses.
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Entangled in Secular Nationalism, Feminism and Islamism

Cultural Dynamics, 2003
This article focuses on the experiences of Konca Kuriş, a veiled Turkish activist, in order to explore the meaning of feminism and the construction of the feminist subject in the non-West. I specifically argue that feminist activism gains meaning in and through interactions among different groups of women and within larger historical discourses ...
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Faith and feminism in Pakistan: religious agency or secular autonomy?

Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 2019
Faith and feminism in Pakistan: Religious agency or secular autonomy is a valiant book and an energetic attempt by an activist, Afyia S.
Muhammad Imran, Xiaofei Matthew Wei
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Secular Muslim Feminism

For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their diverse cultural contexts.Yet, secular Muslim feminism remains shrouded in misunderstanding and contention.
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Encountering the colonial: religion in feminism and the coloniality of secularism

Feminist Theory, 2019
The debate on feminism and ‘religion’ has rarely been suggested as a critique of modernity that has silenced other possible cultural, epistemological and spiritual options. Efforts have been made to ascertain whether ‘religion’ is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for – or indeed an ally or threat to – women’s liberation.
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Fertility, Feminism, and Faith: The Influence of Secularism and Economic Conditions

2015
Fertility rates in developed countries have fallen to previously unseen levels. Within that general downward trend, fertility has varied significantly across countries, plummeting to 1.3 or less in southern European countries, Germany, and Austria-to what some refer to as “lowest-low” fertility levels (Kohler et al. 2002). Conversely, fertility has
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Models of Feminism: Tunisia’s Opportunity to Overcome the Secular/Islamist Binary

Hawwa, 2015
As Tunisians publicly debate the roles of Islam, democracy and feminism in the post-revolutionary period, an opportunity has arisen for the historically fractured women’s movement to overcome the religious/secular “binary” that has crippled both Tunisian politics and the women’s movement for nearly six decades.
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Secular feminism in Tunisia: a political generations approach

Globalizations, 2021
Janine A. Clark, Samah Krichah
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