Samuel Kirkwood Jr.
GWS 390
Notes for GWS paper: Islam and Women
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Intro
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Cannot examine anything in depth without
considering various perspectives
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Using research for consciousness raising
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Their critiques offer various alternative
perspectives regarding the relationship of Islam, women, and feminism
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Focus on their relationship
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The significance of interpretation; influence of
context
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When
Islam and feminism converge-outlines and evaluates various attempts at
constructing and deconstructing Islamic
feminism as a site of analysis and practice applicable to the lives of
Muslim women; critiques the easy conflation or inflation of the convergence of
Islam and feminism
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Resisting the label ‘feminist’
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Resisting convergence-uncrossed bridges
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Doing feminism while taking Islam for granted –how
to teach
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How to
teach-how do we teach about women and Islam given this complex grounding of
modern and transnational feminism?...The progressive scholar engaging women’s
issues in the Muslim world must: historicize feminism and Islam, highlight the complexities
of representation
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Uncrossed
bridges- joining the debates on Muslim women’s rights, this exercise is
meant to illustrate that secular attempts to undermine Islam also undermine the
prospects for rights and democracy in Muslim societies
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Reconciling
Islam feminism-western feminists have not drawn upon Islamic texts when
addressing gender inequalities in Muslim societies…question such a view and
argue that feminists may have more to lose than to gain from this view
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Herlinatiens-lesbianism
does not cause her to follow a new ideology; criticizing society within her
discourse, demonstrate how transgressions of main character function not only
to separate but also to communicate, identify, and relate to Islam, society,
and the status quo
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Conclusion
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Western feminisms flaws
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Importance of differentiation within Islam,
feminism, and women where it counts; how it can be problematic
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Importance of maintaining a critical view of
their relationship
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Interpretations complicate binaries
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