LEADER 03594nam 2200673 450 001 9910463585003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-691-15849-5 010 $a1-4008-6644-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400866441 035 $a(CKB)2670000000603408 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1929546 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001753151 035 $a(OCoLC)966883632 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54677 035 $a(DE-B1597)459958 035 $a(OCoLC)984687169 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400866441 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1929546 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11036322 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL753880 035 $a(OCoLC)905696034 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000603408 100 $a20150411h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSoft force $ewomen in Egypt's Islamic awakening /$fEllen Anne McLarney ; photographed by Ossama Boshra 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxford, [England] :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (331 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aPrinceton Studies in Muslim Politics 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2015. 311 $a1-336-22594-7 311 $a0-691-15848-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 1. Women's liberation in Islam -- Part 2. Gendering Islamic subjectivities -- Part 3. Politics of the Islamic family. 330 $aIn the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women-including scholars, preachers, journalists, critics, actors, and public intellectuals-who envisioned an Islamic awakening in which women's rights and the family, equality, and emancipation were at the center.Challenging Western conceptions of Muslim women as being oppressed by Islam, Ellen McLarney shows how women used "soft force"-a women's jihad characterized by nonviolent protest-to oppose secular dictatorship and articulate a public sphere that was both Islamic and democratic. McLarney draws on memoirs, political essays, sermons, newspaper articles, and other writings to explore how these women imagined the home and the family as sites of the free practice of religion in a climate where Islamists were under siege by the secular state. While they seem to reinforce women's traditional roles in a male-dominated society, these Islamist writers also reoriented Islamist politics in domains coded as feminine, putting women at the very forefront in imagining an Islamic polity.Bold and insightful, Soft Force transforms our understanding of women's rights, women's liberation, and women's equality in Egypt's Islamic revival. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics. 606 $aWomen in Islam$zEgypt 606 $aMuslim women$xPolitical activity$zEgypt 606 $aFeminism$zEgypt 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen in Islam 615 0$aMuslim women$xPolitical activity 615 0$aFeminism 676 $a305.420962 700 $aMcLarney$b Ellen Anne$01048806 702 $aBoshra$b Ossama 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463585003321 996 $aSoft force$92477327 997 $aUNINA