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  • Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales

    Voicing Valerie

    by Viola Thimm ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
    This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist–feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can be used as a methodology, especially in the analysis of multiple ‘identities’.This text considers complex social inequalities as parallel to one another – not ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Embracing Faith and Desire

    Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islam and Christianity as Lived Religions

    Edited by Viola Thimm, Ferdiansyah Thajib ...
    Series series Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences
    Embracing Faith and Desire investigates the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion from an anthropological lens. Taking women’s, non-binary, and queer religious life-worlds in Muslim and Christian contexts as a cross-cutting research theme, the book brings together scholars from different disciplines and regional contexts who are interested in the interconnectedness of gender dynamics, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

    Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility

    Edited by Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of ... Read more

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  • (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style

    Gendered Configurations in Muslim Contexts

    Edited by Viola Thimm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as “religionized” phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between ‘fashionized religion,’ ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    Relationships and Resonances

    by Mohamed Abdou ...
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  • Pious Practice and Secular Constraints

    Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

    by Jeanette S. Jouili ...
    The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints chronicles the everyday ethical struggles of women active in orthodox and socially ... Read more

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  • Human Rights: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Abdulkader Tayob ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • An Islam of Her Own

    Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements

    by Sherine Hafez ...
    As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either “religious” or “secular” discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

    by Claudia Derichs ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border ... Read more

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    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary ... Read more

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  • A Society of Young Women

    Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

    by Amelie Le Renard ...
    The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's ... Read more

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