Secular Muslim Feminism

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on text/transliteration
Glossary
Abbreviations

I. Introduction
Situating secular Muslim feminism
Unpacking 'secular'-'Muslim'-'feminism'
The power and pitfalls of terminology
Navigating methodological challenges
The organizing of the book

II. Demystifying secular Muslim feminism
Don't label me!
Which 'Muslim woman'?
Which 'feminism'?
And whose 'Islam'?
A 'secular' champion of religious freedom
Challenging multiple fronts
Emerging counter-narratives?

III. Islam, feminism, and secular resistance
Early feminist consciousness
Muslim women's scholarship
Muslim women's activism
Between the religious and the secular

IV. The politics of 'saving' the Muslim woman
Orientalism then and now
Orientalism, gender, and empire
In the crossfires of change
The unresolved legacies of colonialism
Mapping feminist responses
Navigating the path ahead

V. Beyond resistance versus subservience
Theorizing 'agency'
'Piety' and the 'agency' turn
The limits of pietist 'agency'
Beyond faith and agency

VI. Islam, secularism, and the woman's question
Secularism in a post-secular age
Secularism confronts Islam
The 'Muslim' woman's question
Secularism in the Muslim world
Beyond Western conceptualizations
Reimagining Secularism

VII. Can the secular Muslim feminist speak?
Silenced voices in their homelands
Dismissed by the international community
The 'native informant' conundrum
The impasse of apologism
The limits of relativism (and) universalism
Solidarity across difference is possible!

Concluding remarks

About the Author
Abstract
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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islam; muslim; feminism; secularism; political ideologies; war; ideology; politics