Volume 42. Issue 1: Religion, Rights and Gender at the Crossroads
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Disentangling Religion and Politics: Whither Gender Equality?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)This article explores the ways in which both religion and gender equality are instrumentalised in the service of diverse political agendas. Building on illustrations from Turkey and Afghanistan, the argument is made that ... -
Introduction: Gender, Rights and Religion at the Crossroads
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)The introduction to this IDS Bulletin captures why this is the moment for re?engaging with the politics of gender and religion in a securitised post?9/11 context in which ‘Muslim communities’ have emerged as a political ... -
The Muslim Brotherhood's Gender Agenda: Reformed or Reframed?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been hailed as an example of a reformist Islamist movement whose role is key to the democratisation process in Egypt. This article examines the extent to which first, the Muslim Brotherhood's ... -
Religion and Development: A Practitioner's Perspective on Instrumentalisation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)Some international development agencies from Europe and North America, as well as some multilateral agencies, have played a critical role in instrumentalising religion in their development policy and practice. This article, ... -
The Islamisation of Human Rights: Implications for Gender and Politics in the Middle East
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)This article argues that dynamics of localising human rights, while internationalising Islam are being played out in the realm of gender politics in the Middle East. Donor interest in supporting reform initiatives directed ... -
Cohesion, Multi-faithism and the Erosion of Secular Spaces in the UK: Implications for the Human Rights of Minority Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)This article explores the erosion of secular public culture in the UK and its implications for minority women whose bodies have become the battleground for the control of community representation. It argues that struggles ... -
Islamism and Secularism: Between State Instrumentalisation and Opposition Islamic Movements
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)In Palestine, a reassertion of the ‘secularist’ identity of the ‘Palestinian national project’ is taking place against a deeply divided political society characterised by a Palestinian authority in conflict with Hamas. ... -
Creating Conservatism or Emancipating Subjects? On the Narrative of Islamic Observance in Egypt
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)Women activists, politicians and policymakers including international development experts are seeking to harness the power of the divine. The rationale is simple: if people are driven by faith, then let us use faith to ... -
Re?thinking the Promotion of Women's Rights through Islam in India
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)Religiously framed approaches to women's rights advocacy, which include those that utilise religious discourses or work through religious leaders and institutions, have increasingly been adopted by a variety of actors, ... -
Beyond ‘Islam’ vs ‘Feminism’
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)Islamic feminism has gained currency since the 1990s and has become the label for a new brand of feminist scholarship and activism that is associated with Islam. But this article argues that the composite term ‘Islamic ... -
From Islamic Feminism to a Muslim Holistic Feminism
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/1/2011)This article looks at the trajectory from secular feminism to Islamic feminism to Muslim holistic feminism, examining the changing meanings of ‘the secular’ and ‘the religious’ and the ways they intersect in the different ...