Format:
1 Online-Ressource (416 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780520974647
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Muslims of the East -- Two Soulless Seraglios in the Grievances of Englishwomen -- Three Gospel, Adventure, and Introspection in an Expanding Empire -- Four Feminism and Empire -- Five Writing Feminism, Writing Freedom -- Six In the Shadow of the Cold War -- Seven Encounters in Global Feminism -- Eight In Search of Solidarity across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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 with 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, like looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own society and, especially, their 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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520342514
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780520342514
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520974647
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