Anissa Hélie,Homa Hoodfar's Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance PDF

By Anissa Hélie,Homa Hoodfar

ISBN-10: 1780322852

ISBN-13: 9781780322858

This groundbreaking booklet explores resistance opposed to the cruel policing of sexuality in a few Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority international locations nonetheless use non secular discourse to implement stigmatization and repression of these, particularly ladies, who don't agree to sexual norms promoted both by means of the nation or by way of non-state actors. during this context, Islam is frequently stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with admire to women's rights and sexuality.

The authors exhibit that conservative Muslim discourse doesn't unavoidably fit practices of believers or of voters and that women's empowerment is facilitated the place indigenous and culturally acceptable thoughts are constructed. utilizing case reviews from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, they argue persuasively that Muslim non secular traditions don't unavoidably bring about conservative agendas yet can advertise emancipatory standpoints.

An intervention to the development of 'Muslim ladies' as uniformly subordinate, this assortment spearheads an exceptional wake of organizing round sexualities in Muslim communities.

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