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Subject(s)

• Sex—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Gender identity—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]

Editor

• Howe, Justine, 1981- [Browse]

Series

Routledge handbooks in religion. [More in this series]

Summary note

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven parts: Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts Sex, sexuality, and gender difference Gendered piety and authority Political and religious displacements Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families Representation, commodification, and popular culture These sections examine key debates and problems, including: feminist and queer approaches to the Qur'an, hadith, Islamic law, and ethics, Sufism, devotional practice, pilgrimage, charity, female religious authority, global politics of feminism, material and consumer culture, masculinity, fertility and the family, sexuality, sexual rights, domestic violence, marriage practices, and gendered representations of Muslims in film and media. The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies, and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I: Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts
• 1. Classical Qurʾanic exegesis and women
• 2. Sex and marriage in early Islamic law
• 3. Islamic gender ethics: traditional discourses, critiques, and new frameworks of inclusivity
• 4. Muslima theology
• 5. Gender and the study of Islamic law: from polemics to feminist ethics
• PART II: Sex, sexuality, and gender difference
• 6. Applying gender and queer theory to pre-modern sources
• 7. Intersex in Islamic medicine, law, and activism
• 8. Sexuality and human rights: actors and arguments
• 9. Mixité, gender difference, and the politics of Islam in France after the headscarf ban
• PART III: Gendered authority and piety
• 10. Gendering the divine: women, femininity, and queer identities on the Sufi path
• 11. Gender and the Karbala Paradigm: on studying contemporary Shiʿi women
• 12. The stabilization of gender in zakat: the margin of freedom and the politics of care
• 13. Muslim chaplaincy and female religious authority in North America
• 14. Malama Ta Ce!: women preachers, audiovisual media and the construction of religious authority in Niamey, Niger
• PART IV: Political and religious displacements
• 15. Gender, Muslims, Islam, and colonial India
• 16. Islam and gender on the Swahili coast of East Africa
• 17. Mujahidin, mujahidat: balancing gender in the struggle of Jihadi-Salafis
• 18. Modelling exile: Syrian women gather to discuss prophetic examples in Jordan
• PART V: Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity
• 19. Transgressing the boundaries: zina¯ and legal accommodation in the premodern Maghrib
• 20. Women and Islamic law: decolonizing colonialist feminism.
• 21. The emergence of women's scholarship in Damascus during the late 20th century
• 22. Human rights, gender, and the state: Islamic perspectives
• PART VI: Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families
• 23. Two 'quiet' reproductive revolutions: Islam, gender, and (in)fertility
• 24. Aging and the elderly: diminishing family care systems and need for alternatives
• 25. Domestic violence and US Muslim communities: negotiating advocacy, vulnerability, and gender norms
• 26. #VoiceOut: Sufi hardcore activism in the Lion City
• PART VII: Representation, commodification, and popular culture
• 27. Hijab, Islamic fashion, and modest clothing: hybrids of modernity and religious commodity
• 28. Constructing the 'Muslim woman' in advertising
• 29. French Muslim women's clothes: the secular state's religious war against racialised women
• 30. Female filmmakers and Muslim women in cinema
• 31. Gender, race, and American Islamophobia
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-351-25656-4
• 1-351-25654-8

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