1st Edition

Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-Liberation The Cultural Turn in Algeria

By Marnia Lazreg Copyright 2021
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This important study examines the cultural turn for women in the Middle East and North Africa, analyzing the ways they have adjusted to and at times defended, socially conservative redefinitions of their roles in society in matters of marriage, work, and public codes of behavior. Whether this cultural turn is an autochthonous response, or an alternative to Western feminism, Islamic... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Genealogy of the Cultural Turn

Chapter 2 National Religion and Culture

Chapter 3 Maghrebin Islam and Its Gendered Functions

Chapter 4 The Management of Salafism and Women

Chapter 5 Islamic Feminism in the Shadow of Deradicalization

Chapter 6 Feminist Antecedent Knowledge and Women’s Quranic Contextualism

Chapter 7 Postliberation and Quranic Attributor Contextualism

Epilogue

Glossary

Biography

Marnia Lazreg is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Her research interests span constructions of otherness, colonial history, cultural movements, international development, women in the Middle East and North Africa, and postmodernist social theory. She has lectured extensively around the world and participated in radio and television programs. Her most recent publications include Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (2017), Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (2010), and Torture and The Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (2017).