Badran Study Guide II
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As you read Badran's "Islamic Feminisms," focus upon the following points.
- p. 159: Feminism—First appeared among the upper and middle classes
- p. 160: The author says that men want to uphold “patriarchal modernity” and women want “egalitarian modernity;” what does this mean?
- p. 160: engagements with modernity—creating a discourse based on ISLAMIC MODERNISM AND SECULAR NATIONALISM
- p. 161: ISLAM VS. MODERNITY—East vs. West
- Fundamentalists and hostile Westerners like to maintain this distinction
- p. 161: Patriarchal form of Islamism can live with nationalism, but not with feminism.
- p. 161: According to the author, what are the differences between “Muslim feminists” and “Islamist women”?
- p. 162: In the 1930's and 1940's, what are some examples of the cordial relations between feminists and Islamist women?
- pp. 162-63: meaning of term “feminism” in the Middle Eastern context
- p. 164: Rereading the Quran and other texts
- p. 164: Radical feminism is
equated with Islamic feminism. Why?
- Islam—as religion and culture
- pp. 164-65: “Middle space” - between secular feminism and masculinist Islamism.
- p. 165: results of Islamic feminism:
- Revisioning of Islam
- New modernity
- Transformation of feminism
- Why is the name that we give to
'feminism' important?
- Why is religious feminism important in the Middle East and other traditional Muslim countries?
- p. 166: No center-stage religious feminism yet
- p. 166: Islamic feminism—an uneasy notion
- p. 168: IJTIHAD: how to be Muslim and modern
- p. 171: Muslim women have tried to combine modernity and secular nationalism
- p. 172: Why couldn’t women divorce privately like men?
- p. 174: Kemalist feminism: man was still head of the family
- p. 174: woman’s bodies: sites of opposition
- p. 175: Islamic modernity vs. secular modernity
- p. 176: NEWLY VEILED WOMEN BUT IN PUBLIC, ACTIVIST ROLES
- Gendered modernist movement
- p. 177: GENDER POLITICS, GENDERING OF MODERNITY
- p. 177: Turkish women took up the hijab in the public sphere
- p. 178: Discourse of the hijab:
modern or not?
- FEMINIST HIJAB (almost militant)
- p. 179: Relationship with male-led nationalist movements vs. feminist movements
- p. 184: Radical feminism = Islamic feminism,
revisited
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Afsaruddin, A. (2007, May 03). Badran Study Guide II. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/arabic-and-middle-east-studies/women-in-islamic-societies/lecture-and-study-materials/badran-study-guide-ii.
