Encountering the transnational women, Islam and the politics of interpretation /

• Main Author: Sharify-Funk, Meena.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
• Series: Gender in a global/local world.
• Subjects: Muslim women.; Women in Islam.; Islam and civil society.; Islamic modernism.; Islam > 21st century.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? This is a compelling account of conversations that are bringing new energy and dynamism into women's activism...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mixed messages and multiple agendas : the politics of women and Islam
• Trends and transformations in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics
• Identity and interpretation : dialogue and the negotiation of meaning
• The transnational and the politics of community
• Muslim society and state : the politics of public space
• Muslim woman as self/other : the politics of identity
• Conclusion: A space for connectivity and dynamism.