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Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures (Paperback)
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Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures (Paperback)
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A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume
not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality
and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and
local and global articulations - but also interrogates our
understanding of what constitutes a 'Muslim' identity in selected
Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment,
characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national,
ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made.
Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the
intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body. Several
overarching questions frame the volume: How does studying gender
and sexuality expand and enrich our understanding of
Muslim-majority countries, historically and at present? How does
the embodiment of 'Muslim' identity get reconfigured in the context
of twenty-first-century globalism? What analytical questions are
raised about 'Islam' when its diverse meanings and multifaceted
expressions are closely examined? What roles do gender and
sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious,
nationalistic, communal, and militaristic identities? How have
power struggles been signified in and on the bodies of women and
sexuality? How have global dynamics, such as the intensification
and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affected changing
dynamics of gender and sexuality in specific locales? Here global
dynamics touch down in diverse contexts, from masculinity crises
around war disabilities, transnational marriages, and fathering in
Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan; to Muslim femininity narratives around
female genital cutting, sexuality in divorce proceedings, and
spouse selection; to gender crossing practices as well as
protesting bodies, queering voices, and claims of authenticity in
literary and political discourse. This book brings exciting
research on these and other topics together in one place, allowing
the essays to speak to one another across time, cultural locales,
and disciplines, and enables the reader to engage the volume in
comparative and cross-disciplinary fashion.
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