Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women: Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9783319737904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Sarwar Alam

Opis

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur'an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women's perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Geography and Demography

Chapter 3: Self, Identity, and Individuality

Chapter 4: Women’s Perceptions of Agency and Power

Chapter 5: Sources of Power and Agency

Chapter 6: Barriers to Women’s Power and Agency

Chapter 7: Construction of Gender and Gender Ideology

Chapter 8: Conclusion

O autorze

Sarwar Alam is a lecturer at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA.

Blurb

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.