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Soft force : women in Egypt's Islamic awakening / / Ellen Anne McLarney ; photographed by Ossama Boshra



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Autore: McLarney Ellen Anne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Soft force : women in Egypt's Islamic awakening / / Ellen Anne McLarney ; photographed by Ossama Boshra Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Princeton University Press, , 2015
©2015
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Disciplina: 305.420962
Soggetto topico: Women in Islam - Egypt
Muslim women - Political activity - Egypt
Feminism - Egypt
Soggetto non controllato: Arab Spring
Arab women
Bint al-Shatiʾ
Egypt
Fann wa-Fiṭra
Heba Raouf Ezzat
Iman Muhammad Mustafa
Islam
Islamic discourse
Islamic family
Islamic literature
Islamic poetics
Islamist politics
Islamists
Kariman Hamza
Muslim women
Niʿmat Sidqi
Qasim Amin
Qurʾan
Safinaz Kazim
Shams al-Barudi
adab
emancipation
family
human capital
political participation
political work
psychic transformations
religiosity
social vision
soft force
traditional roles
veiling
women activists
women's equality
women's liberation
women's rights
women's work
Persona (resp. second.): BoshraOssama
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2015.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Part 1. Women's liberation in Islam -- Part 2. Gendering Islamic subjectivities -- Part 3. Politics of the Islamic family.
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Soft force  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-15849-5
1-4008-6644-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788004203321
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Serie: Princeton studies in Muslim politics.