Voices of Muslim feminists : navigating tradition, authority and the debate about Islam / Vanja Mosbach.

Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, [2022]

©2022

225 pages ; 25 cm + 1 errata leaf.

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 2022.

"Drawing on in-depth interviews with women in Sweden and the Øresund region who have publicly positioned themselves as believing Muslim feminists, this study explores what is involved in their self-positioning, how they conceptualize Muslim feminism, and construct its meaning. The accounts of the participants in this study revolve around three broad themes: First, the aspiration for self-representation as Muslims, second, the negotiations on gender equality and Islam, and third, the negotiation between internal and external religious authority. Analyzing how the participants approach these themes, this study traces how they construct the meaning of Muslim feminism through complex processes of navigating between the authority of the self, the Islamic discursive tradition and the essentialist and politicized debate about Islam and Muslims." -- Page 4 of cover.

English

January 26, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225).