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This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural
practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These
include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), virginity testing,
hymenoplasty, genital cosmetic surgery and child marriage. Bringing
together comparative perspectives, intersectionality, and
interdisciplinarity, it uses feminist methodology and mixed
methods, with ethnography of central importance, to provide
holistic, grounded theorizing within a framework of transformative
research. Taking Female Genital Mutilation, a topical, contested
practice and making it a heuristic reference for related
procedures, makes the case for global action based on understanding
the complexity of harmful cultural practices that are contextually
differentiated and experienced in inter-sectional ways. But because
this phenomenon is enshrouded in matters of sensitivity and
prejudice, narratives of suffering are muted and even suppressed,
dismissed as indigenous ritual, or become ammunition for racist
organizing. Such conflicted and often opaque debates obstruct clear
vision of the scale of both problem and solution. Divided into 6
parts: • Discourses and Epistemological Faultlines • FGM and
Related Patriarchal Inscriptions • Gender and Genitalia •
Female Bodies and Body Politics: Economics, Law, Health, and Human
Rights • Placing Engagement, Innovation, Impact, Care • Words
and Texts to Shatter Silence and comprised of 24 newly written
chapters from experts around the world, this book will be of
interest to Scholars and students of nursing, social work, and
allied health more broadly as well as sociology, gender studies and
postcolonial studies.
This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and
unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive
for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a
mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture.
The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated
religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for
survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of
ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the
presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site
of worship and learning, the authors open out to contemporary
problems of sexual politics within the wider society of socialist
China and beyond to the history of Islam in all its cultural
diversity.
What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of
long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How
do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship
under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs
and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and
ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book
provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and
happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local
Islamic women's mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in
China. These women passionately ? often against unimaginable odds ?
defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their
spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their
rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.
This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture.
In the process of helping women to help themselves, female
activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and
political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first
book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's
organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a
vital force to the present day. The political and social changes
taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly,
received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of
the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's
popular organizing activities and their interaction with
party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both
empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of
the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and
within three groups of political actors - popular women's groups,
religious groups and the All China Women's Federation - is
concisely presented to the reader.
This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese
Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of
long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How
do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship
under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs
and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and
ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book
provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and
happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local
Islamic women's mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in
China. These women passionately - often against unimaginable odds -
defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their
spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their
rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.
In the process of helping women to help themselves, female
activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and
political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first
book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's
organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a
vital force to the present day. The political and social changes
taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly,
received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of
the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's
popular organizing activities and their interaction with
party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both
empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of
the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and
within three groups of political actors – popular women's groups,
religious groups and the All China Women's Federation – is
concisely presented to the reader.
This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese
Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel
forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the
world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to
fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in
government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the
broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political
contestations over Muslim women’s status, the popularization of
mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to
increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does
not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally
understood, China’s Muslims have strengthened and expanded their
global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese
Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With
contributions from a wide variety of scholars—all sharing a
commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach—this volume
provides the first comprehensive account of China’s Islamic
revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from
the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the
multifarious nature of China’s Islam revival, which defies any
reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development
motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded
in China’s broader economic transition. Most importantly, they
trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that
undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting
head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims—Uyghur Muslims
in particular—at a time of intense religious oppression,
intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology.
With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also
traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two
groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of
disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such,
Ethnographies of Islam in China is essential reading for those
interested in Islam’s complexity in contemporary China and its
broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of
Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.
In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel
forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the
world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to
fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in
government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the
broader Muslim world - from influential theoretical and political
contestations over Muslim women's status, the popularization of
mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to
increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does
not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally
understood, China's Muslims have strengthened and expanded their
global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese
Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With
contributions from a wide variety of scholars - all sharing a
commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach - this volume
provides the first comprehensive account of China's Islamic revival
since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the
wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the
multifarious nature of China's Islam revival, which defies any
reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development
motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded
in China's broader economic transition. Most importantly, they
trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that
undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting
head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims - Uyghur Muslims
in particular - at a time of intense religious oppression,
intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology.
With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also
traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two
groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of
disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such
Ethnographies of Islam in China will be essential reading for those
interested in Islam's complexity in contemporary China and its
broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of
Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.
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