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Book SynopsisHow feminists and Islamists have constituted each other’s agendas in Morocco
Trade Review"Between Feminism and Islam challenges the common assumption in the media and the academy that Islamism and feminism are quintessentially opposed ideologies. Through a careful sociological and ethnographic account of Moroccan feminist and Islamist women’s organizations, Zakia Salime shows how the two have transformed each other through decades of activism, debate, and engagement. This is an indispensable book for sociologists of gender, religion, politics, feminism, the Middle East, and Islam." —Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
"This balanced and informative analysis of the decades long entanglements between secular feminists and Islamist women activists in Morocco is a radical departure from conventional understandings of a polarized political scene. Salime reveals how political actors have responded to and learned from each other, changing strategies, ideologies, and visions, putting the debates and practices of women activists in dynamic historical time and changing world contexts, including the war on terror." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Struggles over Political Power: Entangled Feminist and Islamist Movements
1. Gender and the Nation State: Family Law, Scholars, Activists, and Dissidents
2. Feminization of the Islamist Movements: The One Million Signature Campaign
3. Reversing the Feminist Gains: The Islamist Mass Rally of 2000
4. Feminism and Islamism Redefined: In Light of the 2003 Terror Attack on Casablanca
5. Subversive Veiling: Beyond the Binary of the Secular and the Religious
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
