An analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
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An analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
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Routledge, c2017
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A Macat analysis : Saba Mahmood's Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
A Macat analysis of Saba Mahmood Politics of piety
Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
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Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.
Mahmood's book is a study of women's participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood - a feminist social anthropologist with left-wing, secular political values - wanted to understand why women should become such active participants in a movement that seemingly promoted their subjugation. As Mahmood observed, women's active participation in the conservative Islamic revival presented (and presents) a difficult question for Western feminists: how to balance cultural sensitivity and promotion of religious freedom and pluralism with the feminist project of women's liberation? Mahmood's response was to conduct a detailed evaluation of the arguments made by both sides, examining, in particular, the reasoning of female Muslims themselves. In a key moment of evaluation, Mahmood suggests that Western feminist notions of agency are inadequate to arguments about female Muslim piety. Where Western feminists often restrict definitions of women's agency to acts that undermine the normal, male-dominated order of things, Mahmood suggests, instead, that agency can encompass female acts that uphold apparently patriarchal values.
Ultimately the Western feminist framework is, in her evaluation, inadequate and insufficient for discussing women's groups in the Islamic revival.
Table of Contents
Ways in to the Text Who is Saba Mahmood What does The Politics of Piety Say? Why does The Politics of Piety Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
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