Sexuality in Muslim contexts : restrictions and resistance

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Author:

Hélie, Anissa.

ISBN:

9781780322865

9781780322858

Publication Information:

London : Zed, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 346 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Introduction. Policing gender, sexuality and 'Muslimness' / Anissa Hélie -- Part I. Tools of policing: the politics of history, community, law -- 1. The politicization of women's bodies in Indonesia: sexual scripts as charters for action / Vivienne Wee -- 2. Iranian women and shifting sexual ideologies, 1850-2010 / Claudia Yaghoobi -- 3. Moral panic: the criminalization of sexuality in Pakistan / Hooria Hayat Khan -- 4. The promise and pitfalls of women challenging Muslim family laws in India and Israel / Yüksel Sezgin -- 5. Sexuality and inequality: the marriage contract and Muslim legal tradition / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Part II. Sites of contestation: reclaiming public sphere -- 6. Purity, sexuality and faith: Chinese women ahong and women's mosques as shelter and strength / Maria Jaschok with Shui Jingjun -- 7. Veiled transcripts: the private debate on public veiling in Iran / Shadi Sadr -- 8. Kicking back: the sports arena and sexual politics in Iran / Homa Hoodfar -- 9. Morality policing and the public sphere: women reclaiming their bodies and their rights / Homa Hoodfar and Ana Ghoreishian -- 10. 'Living sexualities': non-hetero female sexuality in urban middle-class Bangladesh / Shuchi Karim -- 11. Risky rights? Gender inequality and sexual diversity in Muslim contexts / Anissa Hélie.

Subject Term:

Sex -- Islamic countries.

Sex -- Islamic countries -- Case studies.

Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.

Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Hélie, Anissa.

Hoodfar, Homa.

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Summary

This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to women's rights and sexuality.

The authors show that conservative Muslim discourse does not necessarily match practices of believers or of citizens and that women's empowerment is facilitated where indigenous and culturally appropriate strategies are developed. Using case studies from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, they argue persuasively that Muslim religious traditions do not necessarily lead to conservative agendas but can promote emancipatory standpoints.

An intervention to the construction of 'Muslim women' as uniformly subordinate, this collection spearheads an unprecedented wake of organizing around sexualities in Muslim communities.