Ireen Dubel
Karen Vintges ISBN: 978-90-6665-872-1
160 pagina's
Eerste druk 2007
The issues surrounding women, feminism and fundamentalism are currently being
debated throughout the world at every level and by every segment of humanity.
In this volume a broad spectrum of views and perspectives are presented. What
the authors have in common, however, is that they all distance themselves from
what is known today as ‘secular fundamentalism’, an approach that claims that
only secular Reason brings truth and progress, such as equal rights for women. In
contrast with strongly secularist feminists like Susan Moller Okin and Ayaan Hirsi
Ali, the authors in this volume argue that a struggle for women’s rights is possible
within non-secular contexts.
Several articles explore the lives of orthodox religious women and reflect on
the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism in religious contexts,
discussing among others Saba Mahmood’s path-breaking study on women in
the Egyptian Women’s Mosque Movement.
On a more concrete level, a diversity of strategies and discourses of women
and women’s organisations on how to relate to religious fundamentalism is
discussed such as the recently emerging movement of ‘Islamic feminism’ that
strives for ‘gender justice’ within Islamic contexts, and the struggle of women
in Latin America who plead for women’s rights while at the same time retaining
their Catholic faith and beliefs.
As one of the authors concludes, feminists have to be pragmatic about the choice
of their strategies, overtly and covertly, anonymous and public, gradual and
confronting, and incidental and continuously. The fight against fundamentalism
can also mean simply to continue living your own life as a woman.
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