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The Politics of Piety - The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Piety - The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Hardcover)
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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.
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