Description: An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of PietyThe Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Author(s): Jessica Johnson Format: Paperback Publisher: Macat International Limited, United Kingdom Imprint: Macat International Limited ISBN-13: 9781912128549, 978-1912128549 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety
Item Height: 198 mm
Item Width: 129 mm
Series: The Macat Library
Author: Ian Fairweather, Jessica Johnson
Publication Name: An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Macat International The Limited
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 136 g
Number of Pages: 100 Pages