Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia (SUNY series, Genders in the Global South) - Tapa dura

"An educational, insightful, and powerful read." -- Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual

"Contesting Feminisms attempts to offer nuanced understandings of Muslim women's struggles that are firmly rooted in close attention to local social, economic, and historical contexts with an eye to opening up theoretical spaces in which to examine local and transnational feminist Muslim activism. As such, the volume offers rich insights into women's lives and struggles in moving away from the reductionist frame of a strictly Qur'anic view of women that is mobilized by both Western detractors and Islamic normativizers to constrain women's agency, and instead brings into view the heterogeneity of Muslim women's lives and struggles." -- Zayn Kassam, editor of Women and Islam