SOC 885 Chapter : Article - Gendered Islam and Modernity in the Nation-Space
19 Apr 2012
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Article: gendered islam and modernity in the nation-space. Gendered islam and modernity in the nation-space. feminist review, issue 91, Islamic movements in muslim societies are the catalyst of modernization, rather than its interlocutors. ------> west sees islamic movements as anti-modern forces. Maududi wanted to appropriate modern rationalist thought and islamize it. The modernist wanted to modernize islam whereas mawdudi wanted to also islamize modernity. Jamaat-e-islami women describe themselves as modern" but take care to distance their modernity from the west; they fight for the rights of women but distinguish their activism from feminism. Human subjectivities are intersected by a plurality of interests, including class, race, and sexuality, and emphasizes the operations of various power relations in representational practices. Modern and religious are not necessarily mutually exclusive. An important achievement of zonan"s activism is that it has broken down the secular-religious dichotomy among iranian women. Unlike the islamic feminist in iran, jamaat women cannot be valourized as islamic feminist.
