Women, Piety and Political Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6147764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maimuna Mohamud (Gender Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-186 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hawwa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2078 • E-ISSN: 1569-2086 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15692086-12341297 |
| OpenAlex | W2536175000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
The aftermath of violent conflict provides opportunities for fresh debates about gender politics. In sub-Saharan Africa, several post-conflict states have introduced constitutional reforms and quotas to promote women’s participation in government. Yet, women’s political representation in Somalia is a matter that goes beyond the hotly-debated gender quotas which are often championed by international donors and other peacebuilding actors. In post-war Somalia, women believe that the question of political representation is closely linked to the recognition of women’s ongoing contributions to society. For many women, the contemporary post-war Islamic discourses in Somalia have eroded some rights previously guaranteed—if imperfectly—by the pre-war state. Such discourses today have also constructed a new ideal version of Somali women in an Islamic society which largely dispossesses them from public life. In this article, I highlight Somali women’s forms of activism which are centered on engaging Islamic discourses in an attempt to change current perceptions about women’s roles in politics and public life. I examine women’s narratives for insights into the root causes of women’s exclusion and the strategies used to resist, counter, and challenge oppositional Islamic discourses. I conclude by considering how women’s ‘unorganized’ movements across Somalia—premised on working within a framework of Islam, are suggestive of multifaceted expressions of women’s agency in patriarchal and non-liberal contexts
Agency (philosophy · Islam · Piety · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Somali · State (computer science · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
Islam, Gender, and Social Change
The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia
Women & politics in Uganda
Women in African Parliaments
Women and Power in Postconflict Africa
Muslims in the Diaspora
Peacebuilding
Peaceland
Somali Women and Daily Islam in the Diaspora
Politics of Piety
The Incomplete Revolution
A Women's Non-Movement
Political Islam in Somalia
The women's quota in conflict ridden Sudan
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents
Somalia
Critical Mass Theory Revisited
Women Have Found Respect
Let there be a Balance
Women's Mobilization and Gender Outcomes in Transitions to Democracy
Understanding the Somalia Conflagration
Gender Balance and the Meanings of Women in Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda
The New Muslim Woman
The politics of autonomy and cooptation in Africa
Destruction of State and Society in Somalia
Special Seats for Women in the National Legislature
Islamic Feminism
Gender Politics in Sudan
Rethinking Tokenism
Convergence of Civil War and the Religious Right
The impact of civil war and state collapse on the roles of Somali women
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |