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Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social
reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a
paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology,
and Plural Modernities critically engages with these 'Western eyes'
and shifts the focus towards the global variety of gendered
socialities and hierarchically entangled social histories. This is
conceptualised as multiple gender cultures within plural
modernities. The authors examine the multifaceted realities of
gendered life in varying contexts across the globe. Bringing
together different perspectives, the volume provides a rereading of
the social fabric of gender in contrast to androcentrist-modernist
as well as orientalist representations of 'the' gendered Other. The
key questions explored by this volume are: which social mechanisms
lead to conflicting or shifting gender dynamics against the
backdrop of global entanglements and interdependencies, and to what
extent are neocolonial gender regimes at work in this regard? How
are varying gender cultures sociohistorically and culturally
structured, and how are they connected within (global) power
relations? How can established hierarchies and asymmetries become
an object of criticism? How can historical, cultural, social, and
political specificities be analysed without gendered and other
reifications? That way, the volume aims to promote border thinking
in sociological understanding of social reality towards multiple
gender cultures and plural modernities.
Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social
reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a
paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology,
and Plural Modernities critically engages with these 'Western eyes'
and shifts the focus towards the global variety of gendered
socialities and hierarchically entangled social histories. This is
conceptualised as multiple gender cultures within plural
modernities. The authors examine the multifaceted realities of
gendered life in varying contexts across the globe. Bringing
together different perspectives, the volume provides a rereading of
the social fabric of gender in contrast to androcentrist-modernist
as well as orientalist representations of 'the' gendered Other. The
key questions explored by this volume are: which social mechanisms
lead to conflicting or shifting gender dynamics against the
backdrop of global entanglements and interdependencies, and to what
extent are neocolonial gender regimes at work in this regard? How
are varying gender cultures sociohistorically and culturally
structured, and how are they connected within (global) power
relations? How can established hierarchies and asymmetries become
an object of criticism? How can historical, cultural, social, and
political specificities be analysed without gendered and other
reifications? That way, the volume aims to promote border thinking
in sociological understanding of social reality towards multiple
gender cultures and plural modernities.
Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as
demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive
freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and
gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long
history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this
volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender
equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local
case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and
socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This
book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from
law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and
gender studies in diverse contexts.
Islamic religion has become an object of political discourse in
ways that also affects academic reflection; against this background
this volume aims to provide a theoretically and empirically founded
assessment of where social sciences currently stand with regard to
Islam. For this purpose, the volume continues to develop the
sociological knowledge of Islam that began in the 1980s. Given the
Orientalism inherent in sociology, the volume focuses on Muslim
knowledge systems and institutions, as well as the practice of
Muslim religiosity in various social contexts stretching from
Algeria and Morocco to Turkey.
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