This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North
Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political …

Women in almost every Muslim society have placed issues of women's rights firmly at the
heart of their societies' politics. Women-centered secular religious and/or nonreligious …

This article reflects on the challenges faced by Muslim women in Africa in the context of the
globalization of women's rights and the politicization of Islam. I argue that the gender …

Gender politics exist inevitably in all Islamist movements that expect women to assume the
burden of a largely male-defined tradition. Even in secular political movements in the Muslim …

In the Western political science literature of the late 20th and early 21st century, the Middle
East has often been described, not only as authoritarian, but also as impervious to …

In the 1960s, Egyptian women 'were pushed to work', encouraged to become doctors or
lawyers and to 'participate in the socialist change'of society. Since then, a 'resurgence'of …

This article examines developments in 'Islamic feminism', and offers a critique of feminist
theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory alternative to …

The recent rise and fall of the Islamist rule in Egypt calls for reflection, not just on the role of
Islamic feminist ideas in society, but also on the shifting political grounds and questions of …

Feminist scholarship on women in religious and right-wing social and political movements
has moved from a reductive focus on causal or motivational factors to more sophisticated …

This book examines different brand of women's feminist struggles and focuses on the
struggles of Muslim women who are insiders in the Islamic Movement, as represented in …