ANT335H5 Lecture 9: Nov 4.docx
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How do we see women"s agency when we study movements or practices that are reinforcing oppression: urban women"s mosque movement in cairo in the 1990s, religious movements that are about reclaiming piety and new visions of religiousness in daily life, the resurgent of the veil in the 80s and 90s, women who are involved in trying to reform and recreate forms of religious piety, women who are teaching each other and reading scriptures, shaking up the religious establishment was working at the time in order to reclaim what they see as the traditions of islam, embody religious practices, where women are very engaged in learning piety and become modest, how are they thinking of piety and practices, how can we take their own understanding of things seriously, how do we study women"s agency, what is agency, your own free will and actions through choice, awareness, vs. oppression, systems of power that allow you to make choice.
