Gendered Islam and Modernity in the Nation-Space

Women's Modernism in the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3945924
AutoresAmina Jamal (Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada., autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume91
Fascículo1
Páginas9-28
Data de publicação2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2008.43
OpenAlexW2004198532
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas25

Feminist scholarship on women in religious and right-wing social and political movements has moved from a reductive focus on causal or motivational factors to more sophisticated analyses explicating processes of agency and subject formation. With the aim of expanding and deepening this conceptual space, I will discuss some of my interactions with a group of women in the Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan, as we attempted to explore the complex meanings of 'the modern' that informed the self-understanding of my interviewees. My work corroborates some of the contemporary scholarship on what is referred to as Political Islam in arguing that Islamist movements in Muslim societies are also the catalysts of modernization, rather than simply its interlocutors. This article argues that these processes of social and political organizing entail particular interrogations and the reconstituting of identities in ways that blur the line between 'the religious' and 'the secular'. On the one hand, we need to understand Jamaat women's self-construction as religious or pious women; on the other hand, we must grasp the specificity of their claims to act as modern subjects situated in the time of political and cultural modernity

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