Beschreibung:
Part I. Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts. Classical Qurʼanic exegesis and women -- Sex and marriage in early Islamic law -- Islamic gender ethics : traditional discourses, critiques, and new frameworks of inclusivity -- Muslima theology -- Gender and the study of Islamic law : from polemics to feminist ethics -- Part II. Sex, sexuality, and gender difference. Applying gender and queer theory to pre-modern sources -- Intersex in Islamic medicine, law, and activism -- Sexuality and human rights : actors and arguments -- Mixité, gender difference, and the politics of Islam in France after the headscarf ban -- Part III. Gendered authority and piety. Gendering the divine : women, femininity, and queer identities on the Sufi path -- Gender and the Karbala Paradigm : on studying contemporary Shiʻi women -- The stabilization of gender in zakat : the margin of freedom and the politics of care -- Muslim chaplaincy and female religious authority in North America -- Malama Ta Ce! : women preachers, audiovisual media and the construction of religious authority in Niamey, Niger -- Part IV. Political and religious displacements. Gender, Muslims, Islam, and colonial India -- Islam and gender on the Swahili coast of East Africa -- Mujahidin, mujahidat : balancing gender in the struggle of Jihadi-Salafis -- Modelling exile : Syrian women gather to discuss prophetic examples in Jordan -- Part V. Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity. Transgressing the boundaries : zinā and legal accommodation in the premodern Maghrib -- Women and Islamic law : decolonizing colonialist feminism -- The emergence of women's scholarship in Damascus during the late 20th century -- Human rights, gender, and the state : Islamic perspectives -- Part VI. Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families. Two 'quiet' reproductive revolutions : Islam, gender, and (in)fertility -- Aging and the elderly : diminishing family care systems and need for alternatives -- Domestic violence and US Muslim communities : negotiating advocacy, vulnerability, and gender norms -- #VoiceOut : Sufi hardcore activism in the Lion City -- Part VII. Representation, commodification, and popular culture. Hijab, Islamic fashion, and modest clothing : hybrids of modernity and religious commodity -- Constructing the 'Muslim woman' in advertising -- French Muslim women's clothes : the secular state's religious war against racialised women -- Female filmmakers and Muslim women in cinema -- Gender, race, and American Islamophobia.