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9781138854123 1138854123 Exploring the multifaceted nature of gender and sexuality within Islamic societies in a trans-disciplinary and trans-regional fashion, this collection addresses the following questions: What are the principal methodologies for studying gender and sexuality in Islam? What is Islamic feminism? How do we understand the role of gender in the Islamic revival movements that have emerged since the last quarter of the twentieth century? How have historical forces and political projects colonialism, nationalism, and modernity constituted gender relations? How have sexual ideologies and practices transformed in Muslim majority societies in the modern era? What is the relationship between the global circulation of LGBTQ identities and queer and sexual counter-publics in the Islamic world? "Gender and Sexuality in Islam" highlights methodologically innovative work while covering an expansive geographical range that includes the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and Europe and North America. The volumes cover: Gender and the Ethical Subject; Gender, Empire, and Nation; Sexualities, Intimacy, and the Body; and Gender, Sexuality, and Representation. The set will be of use to scholars, students, and general readers.", This four-volume set comprised of previously published work aims to provide an overview of the major conceptual issues that constitute the field of Gender and Sexuality in Islam. While there is a long standing tradition of scholarship, beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, that addressed "Women in the Muslim World" through a focus on women s status and social position, such literature has been too narrowly focused on women, and has often assumed the collusion of "Islam" and patriarchy in the oppression of Muslim women. A subsequent body of writings disaggregated notions of a monolithic "Islam" and focused instead on the various historical forces colonialism, modernity, nationalism, state formation that have shaped the ways in which women s emancipatory projects in the Muslim world were formulated, reworked, resisted, and enacted. This collection highlights work that engages with and moves beyond these debates, in order to explore the multifaceted nature of gender and sexuality within Islamic societies in a trans-disciplinary and trans-regional fashion. It envisions "gender" not as a synonym for women, but rather as a rubric for conceptualizing biological and sociological understandings of sex, sexuality, and gender identity (such as masculinity, femininity, and non-normative LGBTQ identities). By placing both gender and sexuality within the same interpretive space, this collection will highlight methodologically innovative work, while also including several classical pieces that have been crucial to field formation."
9781138854123 1138854123 Exploring the multifaceted nature of gender and sexuality within Islamic societies in a trans-disciplinary and trans-regional fashion, this collection addresses the following questions: What are the principal methodologies for studying gender and sexuality in Islam? What is Islamic feminism? How do we understand the role of gender in the Islamic revival movements that have emerged since the last quarter of the twentieth century? How have historical forces and political projects colonialism, nationalism, and modernity constituted gender relations? How have sexual ideologies and practices transformed in Muslim majority societies in the modern era? What is the relationship between the global circulation of LGBTQ identities and queer and sexual counter-publics in the Islamic world? "Gender and Sexuality in Islam" highlights methodologically innovative work while covering an expansive geographical range that includes the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and Europe and North America. The volumes cover: Gender and the Ethical Subject; Gender, Empire, and Nation; Sexualities, Intimacy, and the Body; and Gender, Sexuality, and Representation. The set will be of use to scholars, students, and general readers.", This four-volume set comprised of previously published work aims to provide an overview of the major conceptual issues that constitute the field of Gender and Sexuality in Islam. While there is a long standing tradition of scholarship, beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, that addressed "Women in the Muslim World" through a focus on women s status and social position, such literature has been too narrowly focused on women, and has often assumed the collusion of "Islam" and patriarchy in the oppression of Muslim women. A subsequent body of writings disaggregated notions of a monolithic "Islam" and focused instead on the various historical forces colonialism, modernity, nationalism, state formation that have shaped the ways in which women s emancipatory projects in the Muslim world were formulated, reworked, resisted, and enacted. This collection highlights work that engages with and moves beyond these debates, in order to explore the multifaceted nature of gender and sexuality within Islamic societies in a trans-disciplinary and trans-regional fashion. It envisions "gender" not as a synonym for women, but rather as a rubric for conceptualizing biological and sociological understandings of sex, sexuality, and gender identity (such as masculinity, femininity, and non-normative LGBTQ identities). By placing both gender and sexuality within the same interpretive space, this collection will highlight methodologically innovative work, while also including several classical pieces that have been crucial to field formation."