LEADER 03493nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910904000303321 005 20250322110039.0 010 $a9780814790724 010 $a0814790720 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790724 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040705 035 $a(EBL)866105 035 $a(OCoLC)744350456 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523572 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340870 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523572 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10542703 035 $a(PQKB)11061724 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325831 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866105 035 $a(OCoLC)830022873 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4793 035 $a(DE-B1597)547074 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790724 035 $a(ODN)ODN0001190454 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040705 100 $a20110131d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn Islam of her own $ereconsidering religion and secularism in women's Islamic movements /$fSherine Hafez 210 $aNew York and London $cNew York University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8147-7303-6 311 08$a0-8147-7304-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introducing Desiring Subjects -- $t2. Writing Religion -- $t3. Women?s Islamic Movements in the Making -- $t4. An Islam of Her Own -- $t5. Desires for Ideal Womanhood -- $t6. Development and Social Change -- $t7. Reconsidering Women?s Desires in Islamic Movements -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aAs the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either ?religious? or ?secular? discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the ?secular? and the ?religious? as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism.In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on women?s Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a women's Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular. 606 $aWomen in Islam 606 $aFeminism$zIslamic countries 615 0$aWomen in Islam. 615 0$aFeminism 676 $a297.082 700 $aHafez$b Sherine$01707478 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910904000303321 996 $aAn Islam of her own$94288861 997 $aUNINA