Saba Mahmood’s 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.
Mahmood’s book is a study of women’s participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood – a feminist social anthropologist with left-wing, secular political values – wanted to understand why women should become such active participants in a movement that seemingly promoted their subjugation. As Mahmood observed, women’s active participation in the conservative Islamic revival presented (and presents) a difficult question for Western feminists: how to balance cultural...
Saba Mahmood’s 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.
