Is patriarchy an Islamic legacy? A reflection on Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass and Najat El Hachmi's The Last Patriarch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12890482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdellah El Boubekri (0000-0003-1882-1598, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-48 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-7143 • E-ISSN: 1747-6615 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17447143.2015.1008496 |
| OpenAlex | W2077932139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Islamic feminism, no matter how controversial is the term, is a recent cultural discourse that has a good potential of enriching the human cultural diversity and opening up a space for the development of a locally grounded discursive experience within the human studies. After sketching out how this Islamic feminism intervenes in ethnocentrism, in general, and in male's hegemonic culture in the Islamic states, in particular, the focus is narrowed to Moroccan context given this article's author's acquaintance with its sociocultural specificity. Morocco can stand as a miniature of Arab states as both the Tunisian-like progressive lifestyle and the Saudian-like conservatism are softly merged. This representative specificity is easily captured in Moroccan feminist literary accounts. As such, this article will dwell on two influential distinct literary experiences about women's life within and outside Morocco. Patriarchy is presented as cross-cultural practices rather than an intrinsic idiosyncrasy of Islam in The Last Patriarch, by the emerging diasporic writer Najat El Hachmi. Gendered separatism is depicted as a socially constructed phenomenon in Dreams of Trespass by the leading Muslim feminist Fatima Mernissi. In both works, the demise of the patriarch is entailed in the act of trespassing the imaginative/physical bounds of the ‘harem.’
Context (archaeology · Ethnocentrism · Feminism · Harem · Hegemony · Islam · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Trespass · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
Capitalist patriarchy and the case for socialist feminism
Destabilizing theory
Women, Islamisms and the State
Women Claim Islam
Islam, Patriarchy, and Feminism in the Middle East
Women in Middle Eastern History
Women and Gender in Islam
Women’s readings of the Qur'ān
Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi
Modernizing Women
The Neo-Primitivist Turn
Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity
The Politics of Feminism in Islam
The Impact of Islamization on Moroccan Feminisms
The Feminization of Public Space
The Mudawwana and Koranic Law from a Gender Perspective. The Substantial Changes in the Moroccan Family Code of 2004
Re‐locating Moroccan Women’s identities in a transnational world
Women's rights in the muslim world
Dreams of Trespass
Islam and Authoritarianism
Is feminism relevant to Arab women
Reconstructing Eastern paradigms of discourse studies
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism
Theorizing the Politics of 'Islamic Feminism
Khomeini's Teachings and Their Implications for Women
Oil, Islam, and Women
Theorising Patriarchy
Purdah
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |