SoSe08 Gender and Islam (Amsterdam)

Gender and Islam

Presentation Paper

Contact info

  • jmcbrien (at) fmg.uva.nl
  • mcbrien (at) eth.mpg.de

Class info

  • Monday, 1200 - 1500
  • until the end of March: RE J-K Building, Valckenierstraat 65 - 67 (tram 7/10 to Korte Gravensandestraat), room 388-B
  • from 31.03.08: PC Hoofdhuis, Spuistraat 134 (tram 1/2/5 to Dam), room K06

Grading

  • 50%
  • 8 Q(uote) - A(rgument) - Q(uestion) - C(onnection) of 500 words - there are 10 possibilities to hand one in
  • 2 film reviews of 500 (or more) words
  • 20%
  • 10 - 20min presentation
    • two weeks before presentation: literature
    • one week before presentation: submit something in writing - handout or presentation etc.
  • 30%
  • research paper
    • abstract due on April 7th (250 - 300 words)
    • paper due on May 26th (5000 - 7000 words), at the latest June 26th
    • 8 sources needed
    • 2 already read (presentation)
    • 3 from the course can be used
    • 3 additional sources

Reading

Ideas

  • ISIM Review for ideas about presentation

18 / 02 / 2008

  • Abu-Lughod, L. 2002. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist. 104 (3), pp. 783-790.
  • Mahmood, S. 2001. Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival. Cultural Anthropology 16(2):202-236.
  • Kandiyoti, D. 1991. Introduction. In D. Kandiyoti (ed.) Women, Islam, and the State. London: MacMillan, pp. 1-21.

25 / 02 / 08

  • Macleod, A. 1993 Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance: The New Veiling as Accommodating Protest in Cairo. Signs 17 (3), 533-57.
  • Brenner, S. 1996. Reconstructing self and society: Javanese Muslim women and "the veil”. American Ethnologist (23)4, p. 673-697.
  • Smith-Hefner 2007. Javanese Women and the Veil in Post-Soeharto Indonesia. The Journal of Asian studies, (66)2, pp. 389-420
  • Tarlo, M. 2007. Hijab in London: Metamorphosis, Resonance and Effects Journal of Material Culture 12 (2), pp. 131-156.

03 - 10 / 03 / 08

  • Abu-Lughod, L. 1987. Veiled Sentiments. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • get it from Atheneaum (Spui 14)
  • Amazon?

17 / 03 / 2008

McBrien, Julie: Mukadas' Dilemma. In: JRAI. 2009 forthcoming. Kamp, M.: The three lives of Saodat. Communist, Uzbek, Survivor. In: Oral History Review 28 (2), 2001, p.21 -

31 / 03 / 2008

Werner, C.: Women, Marriage, and the Nation-State. The Rise of non-consensual Bride Kidnapping in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. In: The Transformation of Central Asia. States and Societies. Ed. P. Jones Luong. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2004. p. 59 – 89. Kleinbach, R. and L. Salimjanova: Kyz ala kachuu and adat: Non-consensual bride kidnapping and tradition in Kyrgyzstan. In: Central Asian Survey 26 (2), 2007. p. 217 – 233.

07 / 04 / 08

Kandiyoti, D.: Between the Hammer and the Anvil. Post-conflict reconstruction, Islam, and women's rights. In: Third World Quarterly 28 (3), 2007. p. 503 - Hirschkind, C. and S. Mahmood. Feminism, the Taliban and Politics of Counter-Insurgency. In: Anthropological Quarterly 56 (2), 2002. p. 339 – 354. *Ross-Sheriff, F.: Afghan Women in Exile and Repartriation. Passive Victims or Social Actors? In: Affilia 21 (2), 2006. p. 206 – 219.

14 / 04 / 08

Mir-Hosseini, Z.: Debating Women. Gender and the Public Sphere. Post-Revolutionary Iran. In: Civil Society in the Muslim World. Ed. A. Sajoo. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. p.95 – 122. Farhi, F.: Religious Intellectuals, the 'Woman Question,' and the Struggle for the Creation of a Democratic Public Sphere in Iran. In: International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 15 (2), 2001. p. 315 – 339. Thompson, E.: Public and Private in Middle Eastern Women's History. In: Journal of Women's History 15 (1), 2003. p. 52 – 69 Nelson, C.: Public and Private Politics. Women in the Middle Eastern World. In: American Ethnologist 1 (3), 1974. p. 551 – 563.

21 / 04 / 08 PRESENTATION

Moors, A.: Embodying the nation. Maha Saca's post-intifada postcards. In: Ethnic and Racial Studies 23 (5), 2000. p.871 – 887. Northrop, D.: Embodying Uzbekistan. In: Veiled Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2004. p. 33 – 68.

28 / 04 / 08

Wikan, U.: Citizenship on Trail. Nadia's Case. In: Daedalus 129 (4), 2000. p. 55 – 76 Roggeband, C. and M. Verloo: Dutch Women are Liberated, Migrant Women are a Problem. The Evolution of Policy Frames on Gender and Migration in the Netherlands, 1995 – 2005. In: Social Policy & Administration 41 (3), 2007. p. 271 – 288 Werbner, P.: Veiled Interventions in Pure Space. Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France. In: Theory, Culture & Society 24 (2), 2007. p. 161 – 186.

19 / 05 / 08

*to be announced.