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Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism :The Limits of modern Analysis

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An accessible introduction to postmodernism, feminist theory and Islamic fundamentalism, this book is a highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism which looks at what happens when they are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam. The author describes the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. Postmodernism has exposed the vested interests implicit in racist stereotyped and colonial images of Islam, particularly radical Islam. However, the author argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement, postmodernism has put itself in service to power and the status quo. She brilliantly demonstrates how this has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism--or a new feminist orientalism, asking some hard questions of those who denounce the racism of Western feminism but uncritically embrace the Islamic identity of Muslim women. By delegitimizing attempts to evaluate policies of sovereign nations, and by dismissing the plurality of interests, power relations and the contestability of traditional values within the collectivities she generalizes as " non-Western " , Mouffe represents a tendency that Haideh Moghissi, an exile Iranian author, has warned about in postmodern theory. Moghissi argues: " Whatever their intent, arguments which assert the right of different cultures to establish, define and exercise their own standards, meanings and principles play directly into the hands of political and economic elites, religious leaders and authoritarian regimes, and, above all, fundamentalists, who argue, for their own purposes, that the notion of human rights is 'culture-bound' and Western, that international measures for human rights are imperialist ploys

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KP.II MOG f

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KP.II MOG f

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London : Zed Books., 1999

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English

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KP.II

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Fundamentalisme Islam
Wanita--Hukum islam
Wanita muslim

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