Overview
- Demonstrates how rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender
- Argues that rural women’s perception of power and gender is not ahistorical or acultural
- Analyses how rural Muslim women of Bangladesh perceive power, powerlessness, and gender and how their perception is linked with their lived experience of religion
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About this book
This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sarwar Alam is a lecturer at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women
Book Subtitle: Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh
Authors: Sarwar Alam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73791-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73790-4Published: 26 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89259-7Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73791-1Published: 15 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religion and Gender, Islamic Theology, Women's Studies, Ethnography