The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender

The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howe, Justine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Routledge Handbooks in Religion Ser.
Subjects:
Sex > Religious aspects > Islam.
Gender identity > Religious aspects > Islam.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of 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 Qurʼanic 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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