scholarly journals Teoría feminista y el agente social dócil: algunas reflexiones sobre el renacimiento islámico en Egipto

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saba Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Saba Mahmood

Este texto fue originalmente publicado por Saba Mahmood en la revista Cultural Anthropology en el volumen 16, número 2, del año 2001 con el título: “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival”. En el año 2008, el texto fue publicado en castellano en un libro editado por Liliana Suárez Navaz y Rosalva Aída Hérnandez Castillo en Cátedra: Descolonizando el feminismo: teorías y prácticas desde los márgenes. En él, la autora recientemente fallecida, aborda un debate central en la teoría feminista, la agencia social. A través del análisis del movimiento de la piedad en el Egipto de los años 90 y concretamente del estudio de cinco mezquitas en El Cairo, Mahmood cuestiona que se considere la agencia social como un sinónimo de resistencia a las relaciones de dominación, lo que impide el estudio de movimientos como el que ella estudia, y aboga por una concepción de la agencia como capacidad de acción que se habilita y crea en relaciones de subordinación históricamente específicas.

The Politics of the Veil in Medieval Christianity

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Karl Shuve
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
The Body ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Saba Mahmood ◽  
Feminist Historiography ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Saba Mahmood begins Politics of Piety with a question: ‘[H]ow should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and the politics of any feminist project?’ She notes that while many forms of ‘difference’ have been integrated within feminist theory, ‘religious difference’ has received comparatively little emphasis. She attributes this to the ‘vexing relationship between feminism and religion,’ arising from feminism’s firm situation within ‘secular-liberal politics.’ In this essay, I explore how Mahmood’s insights might enrich the study of premodern Christianity. My particular focus will be a central, yet highly contested, aspect of medieval women’s piety: the practice of nuns taking the veil during consecration, marking them as ‘brides of Christ’. I hope, with Mahmood, to consider how an analysis of ‘the particular form that the body takes might transform our conceptual understanding of the act itself’, offering new possibilities for the practice of feminist historiography.

scholarly journals Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform

1970 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Max Weiss ◽  
Najla Hamadeh
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Family Law

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist SubjectAs interest continues to grow in what is occasionally called the global resurgence of religion, the importance of understanding and explaining the Islamic revival (al-sahwa al-islamiyya) has never been greater. Indeed, no longer the exclusive domain of scholars, students, and policymakers working in and around the Islamic world, the politics and practices of Islamism are now, suddenly,issues that matter to all. It is in this connection that Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety has already proved to stand as one of the most meaningful contributions to the field of Islamic studies over the past five years, with striking resonance across such disciplines as cultural anthropology, women’s studies, religion, and critical philosophy. Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on ReformRecently, Islam in general, and Islamic family law in particular, have been the object of much interest and research. The particular focus on family law is justified not only by the importance of families, the building blocks that constitute society and mold individuals, but also by the fact that Islamic family law is often the most resistant to change, as it is the hardest to disentangle from religious authority.

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