2018 - 2019

0622-3224-01
  A Hybride Feminism-Women,Gender,Religion&Society-A Middle Estern Model                               
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Mira TzoreffGilman-humanities455Mon1400-1600 Sem  1
Gilman-humanities455Wed1400-1600 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

The seminar focuses on the struggle of Arab and Muslim Women in their countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and Yemen) to improve their life conditions and their legal status as equal citizens..

The struggle was and remains completely different from that of Western feminists since the Middle Eastern activists conduct their struggle within the framework of their religion and they declare themselves religious women who use the religious knowledge they acquired and the unique interpretation they give to the Holy Scriptures as a means to empower themselves in both the family and society (this kind of struggle can be termed: a change from within.). Through this knowledge they are able to challenge the patriarchal political, religious and social establishment that uses the scriptures to reinforce their own status and, simultaneously, weaken that of women. The course will focus also on the significant contribution of women to the Arab Spring revolutions as part of a broader discussion on women and revolutions in the Middle East. By giving a voice and a space to these religious and veiled women we will try to deconstruct the binary approach between religion and feminism in the Middle East.

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