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Is There a Secular Hierarchy in the Norwegian Public Sphere?

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2020
The point of departure for this article is to understand how various utterances from Muslims on themes such as secularity, freedom and feminism can be recognized in the Norwegian public sphere.
Jonas Gamborg Lillebø
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Feminism in the Middle East: An analysis into Western, Islamic, and Secular Feminism

open access: yesCrossings: An Undergraduate Arts Journal, 2023
This article showcases the diversity of feminism in the Middle East and its effects on Middle Eastern women, particularly Muslim women. I argue that though Western feminism has provided important conceptual tools for understanding and fighting patriarchal systems, it has ultimately supported the othering of Middle Eastern women.
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Beyond formal spaces

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2020
This text offers some reflections that stem from my participation in the NSU Winter Symposium ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and critical perspectives in dialogue with a secular age’, held in Turku, Finland, 5–7 March 2020. Drawing from my previous
Israel Moura Barroso
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Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt

open access: yesTemenos, 2006
This article argues that insomuch as feminism is both an analytical and politically prescriptive project, it aims not only to analyze the situation of women in different historical and cultural locations but also to transform their conditions of ...
SABA MAHMOOD
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Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2010
This paper explores the reason behind the crisis of representation in post-revolutionary competing Iranian gender discourses. These competing discourses include Islamic fundamentalism, religious revisionism, and secular feminism.
Fatemeh Sadeghi
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Fantasised alterity, inaudible voices. Notes for a critique of the coloniality of desire

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2020
Adopting the decolonial theoretical framework, as far as gender issues are concerned, we will address an important issue: the sexual imaginaries which, from Western cultures, have been projected onto non-Western alterities.
Jorge Polo Blanco
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Specters of Islam

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
In this paper, I trace historical developments in Islamist politics and mainstream feminism in relation to media representations of Muslim women. By examining articles in The New York Times (NYT) published between 1979 and 2011, I suggest that secular ...
Tanzeen Rashed Doha
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The Culture of Life and the New Maternity

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Within the divergent streams of late-modern and largely Western feminism, the experience and ethos (and ethics) of motherhood and the significance of the “maternal body” have been hotly contested and problematic.
Anna Krohn
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