Sehlikoglu, S;
(2017)
Revisited: Muslim Women's agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East.
Contemporary Islam
, 12
pp. 73-92.
10.1007/s11562-017-0404-8.
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Abstract
This article locates imaginative aspects of human subjectivity as a feminist issue by reviewing the concept of agency in the genealogy of Muslim and Middle Eastern women in anthropological and ethnographic literature. It suggests that, if feminist scholarship of the Middle East would continue approaching to Muslim women’s agency -as it has been doing for decades-, it should do so as an epistemological question and thus expand the limits of ethnographic and analytical focus beyond the broader systems, such as family, nation, religion, and state. As an example to this proposition, the article then discusses the recent work on aspects of selfhood that escape from the structures, rules, systems, and discursive limits of life but captures imaginations, aspirations, desires, yearnings, and longings.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Revisited: Muslim Women's agency and feminist anthropology of the Middle East |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11562-017-0404-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-017-0404-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Agency, Muslim women, Anthropology of the Middle East, Desire, Feminist theory |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119871 |
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