"This very timely book opens doors into spaces of Islamic piety that shatter the stereotypes which dominate thinking in the West. Mahmood carefully unpacks the distortions that common modes of liberalism and feminism impose on the Muslim world. She combines richness of description with theoretical sophistication to provide insight into the struggle of some Muslim women to live their faith, often in the face of not only Western liberal influences but also Arab nationalism and political Islamism. The reader is forced to face dilemmas that cannot be easily resolved. This is social science at its most illuminating."--Charles Taylor, Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University, author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
"This brilliant study of women in the contemporary mosque movement in Egypt is a provocative challenge to secular feminists and a testament to what anthropology can still offer--through its insistence on serious listening to other worlds--to critical social theory. No feminist theorist or anthropologist of modernity will be able to think the same way about liberalism, agency, or religion after reading this book. I hope that Mahmood's incisive analysis of the Islamic movement will also finally put an end to the banalities that currently masquerade as knowledge about this meaningful social movement."--Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, author of Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal principles by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.
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The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
評分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
評分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
評分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
評分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
圖書標籤: 人類學 性彆 伊斯蘭 Mahmood 文化研究 人類學·社會學 中東 anthropology
理論部分看得特彆“解氣”,對Eurocentric liberal feminists的精準吐槽,指齣瞭兩個站不住腳的假設: 對“個人自主”的崇拜和由此引申而來的“壓迫-反抗”二元框架。但後來想想,這種批判帶來的暢快感其實也有點危險,這本書說到底還是西方人跑到東方尋找萬能鑰匙的敘事,把自由主義批判得體無完膚的同時,也過度理想化瞭埃及穆斯林女性的宗教實踐。Piety movement對個體的解構就不存在問題嗎?西方自由主義傳統內部對這些問題又有哪些值得藉鑒的反思?
評分Neo-Orientalism and asking for empathy. Suck.
評分把agency和submission-suppression區分開來,並由此反思西方的自由話語。
評分Foucauldian...
評分伊斯蘭女性主義研究的重磅作品,可惜作者英年早逝。翻瞭一下作者維基百科,發現她是另外一個大牛、寫瞭The Ethical Soundscape的Charles Hirschkind的妻子,還是埃爾多安女兒在伯剋利讀書期間的導師。#學術八卦
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