"A must read."-CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 A
crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and
Muslim feminisms. Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend
to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier
of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin
presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of
colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim
societies. Muslim women, like other women around the world, have
been engaged in their own struggles for generations: as individuals
and in groups that include but also extend beyond their religious
identity and religious practices. The modern and globally enmeshed
Muslim world they navigate has often been at the weaker end of
disparities of wealth and power, of processes of colonization and
policies of war, economic sanctions, and Western feminist outreach.
Importantly, Muslims have long constructed their own ideas about
women's and men's lives in the West, with implications for how they
articulate their feminist dreams for their own societies.
Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War
on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in
women's lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected
wider changes in national and global politics and economics. Muslim
women, like non-Muslim women in various colonized societies and
non-white and poor women in the West, have found themselves having
to negotiate their demands for rights within other forms of
struggle-for national independence or against occupation, racism,
and economic inequality. Through stories of both well-known and
relatively unknown figures, Shehabuddin recounts instances of
conflict alongside those of empathy, collaboration, and solidarity
across this extended period. Sisters in the Mirror is organized
around stories of encounters between women and men from South Asia,
Britain, and the United States that led them, as if they were
looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own
society, including cherished ideas about women's roles and rights.
These intertwined stories confirm that nowhere, in either Western
or Muslim societies, has material change in girls' and women's
lives come easily or without protracted struggle.
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