Contextualising Muslim women's assertiveness: cross-cultural perspectives on faith, gender and citizenship in British society

将穆斯林妇女的自信置于情境中：英国社会对信仰、性别和公民身份的跨文化视角

• 批准号: 2570047
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2570047
• 关键词: Contextualising; Muslim; women; assertiveness; cross

Far-right and Western feminist movements alike have joined the anti-Islam chorus, calling for State intervention in the lives of Muslim women, who must be liberated from an allegedly oppressive religion and barbaric Muslim men, while denying these same women a voice or vilifying them for expressing different views. The religion, then presented as "deeply opposed to the ethos of democracy and gender equality", is framed in terms of Huntington's Clash of Civilisations, whereby supposedly irreconcilable differences between Muslim and non-Muslim worlds are final evidence of the impossibility of different value systems to co-exist in society (Farris, 2017; Fekete, 2006; Modood 2010a:1660). Guided by the Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1968), this study acknowledges the intersectional struggles experienced by Muslim women in Western societies and contends that the only reasonable way to allyship, on the part of the State in fulfilling its duties to citizens, and activists as watchdogs and change-makers, is to operate on the grounds set by those directly affected (Freire, 1968; Crenshaw, 1991). This investigation is set to highlight material and historical heterogeneities that influence the life experiences of Muslim women and their status in both British society and their respective Islamic communities. A feminist set of capabilities will support qualitative assessments of well-being, empowerment and freedoms (Sen, 2003; Robeyns, 2003). The Capability Approach examines real freedoms (the means necessary to achieve the beings and doings that one seeks), while considering human diversity and particular circumstances that influence the capability of individuals to achieve well-being. Capabilities and functionings (actual achievement of beings and doings) are taken as indicators of levels of empowerment in the familial, economic, social, and religious domains. Furthermore, the proposed debates on Islamic feminisms encompass a post-colonialist critique of the secular and the positive re-assessment of feminist engagement with religion, putting feminist interpretations of the Qu'ran, envisioned reforms of Shari'a law and the divestment separation between religion and culture at the centre of the struggle for gender equality (Mir-Hosseini, 2004; Modood, 2010b; Joly & Wadia, 2017).

极右派和西方女权运动都加入了反伊斯兰教的行列，呼吁国家干预穆斯林妇女的生活，必须将她们从据称的压迫性宗教和野蛮的穆斯林男子中解放出来，同时剥夺这些妇女的发言权，或因她们表达不同观点而对其进行诽谤。该宗教被描述为“与民主和性别平等的精神相对立”，并被亨廷顿的《文明的冲突》所框定，穆斯林和非穆斯林世界之间不可调和的差异最终证明了不同的价值体系不可能在社会中共存（Farris，2017; Fekete，2006; Modood 2010 a：1660）。受压迫者教育学的指导（Freire，1968年），这项研究承认穆斯林妇女在西方社会中经历的交叉斗争，并认为，国家在履行其对公民的义务时，与作为监督者和变革者的活动家结盟的唯一合理方式是根据直接受影响者设定的理由行事（Freire，1968; Crenshaw，1991）。这项调查旨在突出影响穆斯林妇女生活经历及其在英国社会和各自伊斯兰社区中地位的物质和历史异质性。一套女权主义者的能力将有助于对福祉、赋予权力和自由进行定性评估（Sen，2003年; Robeyns，2003年）。能力方法审查真实的自由（实现人们所追求的存在和行为的必要手段），同时考虑到人类的多样性和影响个人实现福祉的能力的特殊情况。能力和功能（存在和行为的实际成就）被视为家庭、经济、社会和宗教领域赋权水平的指标。此外，拟议的关于伊斯兰女权主义的辩论包括对世俗的后殖民主义批评和对女权主义与宗教的接触的积极重新评估，将女权主义对古兰经的解释、伊斯兰教法改革的设想以及宗教与文化之间的分离置于争取两性平等斗争的中心（Mir-Hosseini，2004; Modood，2010 b; Joly & Wadia，2017）。