Soft force : women in Egypt's Islamic awakening
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Soft force : women in Egypt's Islamic awakening
（Princeton studies in Muslim politics）
Princeton University Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index
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In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women--including scholars, preachers, journalists, critics, actors, and public intellectuals--who envisioned an Islamic awakening in which women's rights and the family, equality, and emancipation were at the center. Challenging Western conceptions of Muslim women as being oppressed by Islam, Ellen McLarney shows how women used "soft force"--a women's jihad characterized by nonviolent protest--to oppose secular dictatorship and articulate a public sphere that was both Islamic and democratic. McLarney draws on memoirs, political essays, sermons, newspaper articles, and other writings to explore how these women imagined the home and the family as sites of the free practice of religion in a climate where Islamists were under siege by the secular state.
While they seem to reinforce women's traditional roles in a male-dominated society, these Islamist writers also reoriented Islamist politics in domains coded as feminine, putting women at the very forefront in imagining an Islamic polity. Bold and insightful, Soft Force transforms our understanding of women's rights, women's liberation, and women's equality in Egypt's Islamic revival.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Introduction-The Islamic Public Sphere and the Subject of Gender: The Politics of the Personal 1 Part One: Women's Liberation in Islam 1. The Liberation of Islamic Letters: Bint al-Shati"s Literary License 35 2. The Redemption of Women's Liberation: Reviving Qasim Amin 70 Part Two: Gendering Islamic Subjectivities 3. Senses of Self: Ni'mat Sidqi's Theology of Motherhood 103 4. Covering in the Public Eye: Visualizing the Inner I 143 Part Three: Politics of the Islamic Family 5. The Islamic Homeland: Iman Mustafa on Women's Work 180 6. Soft Force: Heba Raouf Ezzat's Politics of the Islamic Family 219 Epilogue-Fann wa-Fitra: Art and Instinct 255 Bibliography 271 Index 295
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