Huma Ahmed-Ghosh 
Contesting Feminisms 
Gender and Islam in Asia

Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors highlight the fact that secularism has provided the space for some women to reclaim their religious identity and their own feminisms. Through compelling case studies and theoretical discussions, this volume challenges mainstream Western and national feminisms that presume homogeneity of Muslim women’s lives to provide a deeper understanding of the multiple realities of feminism in Muslim communities.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments



Introduction


Huma Ahmed-Ghosh




Part I. Whose Feminism? Muslim Women Redefining “Empowerment”



1. Muslim Women’s Leadership in Uzbekistan: Religion and Emotion


Svetlana Peshkova



2. Feminization of Islam? Agency and Visibility of Women in Southern Thailand’s Branch of the Tablighi Jama’at’s Missionary Movement


Alexander Horstmann



3. Women’s Empowerment in the Xi’an Muslim District


Maris Boyd Gillette



4. The Influence of the National Question on Gender Issues in the Muslim Areas of the Southern Philippines: Maranao Muslim Women between Retraditionalization and Islamic Resurgence


Birte Brecht-Drouart




Part II. Feminisms and Muslim Women’s Movements in Contested Spaces

5. The Headscarf Ban and Muslim Women’s Rights Discourse in Turkey


Zeynep Akbulut


6. Intersecting Dynamics: Representational Activism and New Mobilities among “Muslim Women” in India


Nadja-Christina Schneider



7. Islamic Feminism between Interpretive Freedom and Legal Codification: The Case of Sisters in Islam in Malaysia


Yasmin Moll



8. Faith-based Challenges to the Women’s Movement in Pakistan


Afiya Shehrbano Zia




Part III. Transnational Feminisms: Locating Muslim Women at the Crossroads



9. From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Charting Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Victimization, and Survival


Elora Halim Chowdhury



10. Governance Feminism’s Imperial Misadventure: Progress International Law, and the Security of Afghan Women


Cyra Akila Choudhury



11. Islam, Feminism, and Agency in Germany Today


Beverly M. Weber



Contributors

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and the editor of
Asian Muslim Women: Globalization and Local Realities, also published by SUNY Press.