1st Edition
Adversarial Islamic Feminism Islam and Feminism within the Western-Islamic Public Sphere
By Dilyana Mincheva
Copyright 2025
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations. It highlights how adversarial Islamic feminism uses social media to spread intersectional feminist messages, creating virtual communities that both support... Read more
Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: El Saadawi's Dissident Feminist Project: Legacy of a Double Struggle, for Gender Justice and against Imperialism, Chapter 2: Reform and Utopia in Canadian Islamic Feminism: The Contradictory Project of Irshad Manji, Chapter 3: Mona Eltahawy: Adversarial Islamic Feminism Within the Western-Islamic Public Sphere, Chapter 4: Halla Diyab's Adversarial Feminism - Between Islam and Secularity, Between Power and Resistance, Between Syria and England, Chapter 5: Waad Al-Kateab's For Sama: Cinematic Islamic Feminism and the Female War Gaze, Chapter 6: Deeyah Khan's Radical Care: Vulnerability and Border Inside Global, Mediatized Intersectional Feminism, Conclusions, Index.
Biography
Dilyana Mincheva, an Associate Professor at McMaster University, researches Islamic feminism and Islam's intellectual/public aspects in indigenous/diasporic settings. She is the author of The Politics of Western Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West(Liverpool University Press, 2016/2022) and other works on religious agency, social media activism, and Islamic media arts.
