Maxine Molyneux (2008) discussing neoliberal trends in feminist social policy in Latin America argues that the term ‘neoliberalism’ has become so profuse it had lost a sense of any specific meaning. In their essay Introduction: …
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Neoliberalism, Feminism and Afghanistan
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Talk Notes from Kieran Flynn Memorial Lecture Series on Islam in the West
And I just want to end quoting a tweet from Salma Yacoob who started the hashtag #lifeofamuslimfeminist “White feminists want to pull your hijab off and 'liberate' you and Muslims tell you you don't need feminism #lifeofamuslimfeminist
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Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency
n a cool, breezy evening in March 1999, Hollywood celebrities turned out in large numbers to show their support for the Feminist Majority’s campaign against the Taliban’s brutal treatment of Afghan women. The person spearheading …
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Ending Zionism is a feminist issue
by: Nada Elia from The Electronic Intifada As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian population in Gaza approaches its third week, we continue to hear about the “disproportionate number” of women and children victims. This expression …
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Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success
by Cihan Tugal from Jadaliyya There are two telling, though widely neglected, details about what initiated and popularized the groundbreaking protests in Taksim Square, Istanbul: the protests started out as a response to the governing …
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Inter/section/ality
Audre Lorde taught us, “There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.”
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The Veils of Democracy: Into the thought-experiment of Steal this Hijab
How do we organize ourselves in a horizontal manner that brings to bear all the different voices of our society in a way that people are able to each participate as they can, freely, but with equal power and equal say. Although I am aware that we live in a world where this notion appears as wishful thinking; I also feel we live in a world where it is necessary for us to figure out the questions of liberation, equality, fairness, justice in our communities - or perish.
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War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, Sex Pervs, and Sex Revolutionaries
by Sima Shakhsari The recent issue of Foreign Policy on sex has instigated critical feedback from many who have rightly challenged racist and Orientalist representations of gender and sexuality in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Several critics have rightly …
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Iran, Women’s Rights and the Arab Spring
For each woman that is imprisoned, another will take her place and swell the ranks of the women’s movement. –Shrine Ebadi, Iranian Noble Peace Prize winner, 2004. The stories of sweeping reform across the Middle …
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An Islamic School for Girls
by Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix In 1982, when she was just 17 years old, Houda al-Habash opened the doors to her Qur’an school for women and girls at the Al-Zahra Mosque in Damascus, Syria. …
