Monograph series
GENDER DISCOURSE AND ISLAMIST PERSPECTIVES ON FEMINISM
A new series on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
CF is seeking to address how Islamist women, who are also feminists, understand feminism. What does it mean to be feminist within the world of Islamic movements? Many in the West would see such a discourse as an oxymoron. However Islamist feminists insist that their western counterparts have no claim to hegemony, and they demand respect and the space for a distinct Islamic perspective on this issue.
Making that space within the western dominated discourse, and fending off external imposition, requires that ‘new’ language must be inscribed within it: one that argues an alternative perspective. To support this debate, CF has commissioned a series of monographs on feminism and gender from a stance within the Islamist community. The purpose is to ask writers – Islamist women and writers as well as other writers and researchers – to take up the task of constructing ‘new’ language; and to situate the Islamic perspective within the wider debate, by challenging the dominant meme – especially in its claim that Islam represses women.
Monograph 01: Islamist Women’s Activism in Occupied Paletine, parts I and II (PDF)
Monograph 02: A Study on Women in Islam: An Islamic Vision of Women From the Viewpoint of Contemporary Shi’i Scholars in Lebanon (PDF)
Monograph 03: Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), Dr Islah Jad (PDF)
Monograph 04: Iranian Women After The Islamic Revolution, Dr Ansiah Khaz Ali (PDF)