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 While reading the second half of Barlas' Believing Women, keep the following questions in mind.


1) How does Barlas interpret Qur’anic views on sexual sameness vs. difference?  What does she find problematic about the two-sex model and the assumptions of gender and sex that are implicit in it?  Pp. 130-48

 

2) What, according to Barlas, is the Qur’an’s position on sexuality?  How does it differ from Western patriarchal notions?  Pp. 149-66

 

3) How are family and marriage conceptualized in the Qur’an with regard to parental rights, according to Barlas?  PART I  Pp. 167-82

 

4) How about with regard to daughters and fathers, wives and husbands?  PART II  Pp. 182-92

 

5) How does Barlas attempt to reconcile the Qur’anic principle of egalitarianism with divorce rights and assumed masculine privileges?  Pp. 192-200

 

6) What does she find problematic about the conventional dichotomy (division) of public and private spheres?  Pp. 200-202; also p. 172

 

7) What does she mean by “reading in front of the text?”  Pp. 200-210

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