What is Islamic Feminist Discourse? -✔✔✔- Derived from the Qu'ran
- Advocates gender equality (which is affirmed by the Qu'ran + prevented/subverted by patriarchal ideas
& practices)
- The fiqh in 9th Classic 9th century was saturated with patriarchal ideas which impacted the Sharia
(which today gives women less rights than men)
Liberal Feminism -✔✔✔- Women's subordination is because they aren't integrated with the public
sphere
-believe that they need to integrate women into the courts and politics etc...
Radical Feminism -✔✔✔- uniform discrimination when controlling womens sexuality
-want women's sexual liberation
Marxist Feminism -✔✔✔- class based and class plays important role
Third World Feminism (East/West Dynamic) -✔✔✔- women arguing that they are oppressed because
of where they are from, believing that the west is oppressing them
- reject western feminist views
Post Modern Feminism -✔✔✔- women as a category is deconstructed
- women are not oppressed in the same way
- oppression is different depending on background and circumstances
Nationalism & Feminism -✔✔✔- Feminism & Nationalism are interlinked in the Middle East