Between equity and equality muslim women's dilemma in the face of gender equality

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2016-07-14

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Saktanber, Ayşe Nur

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Muslim women’s struggle promoting gender equality has always been faced with suspicion for in Islam women’s and men’s positions are relegated to an ontological condition. According to this the concept of gender equality contradicts with the understanding of fýtrat , that of men’s and women’s pre-given natural characteristics which prevent them from not only playing equal roles in social life , but also having equal rights before civil laws. Muslim women usually try to surmount this assigned difficulty by promoting notion of equity through which notion of justice plays a prime role for the betterment of women’s social position particularly where women live under Muslim Law. In order to examine the dilemma of Muslim women in the face of gender equality this paper explores how Muslim women who live under secular regimes like Turkey try to develop a progressive perspective in pursuing women’s rights within the framework of equity and raise their voices stronger in some selective issues. Violence against women is one of those issues and Muslim women are so active in rallying around some civil society organizations specialized about this particular issue, an issue the justification of which is easier for not being blamed as becoming a feminist when working as a Muslim woman activist. It also discusses how such women activisms give rise to an unprecedented subversive performativity for Muslim women who are carefully scrutinized particularly by Islamist circles to see whether they stray away from Islamic rules and regulations when working to promote women’s rights. It also argues that gender mainstreaming constitutes another problem to overcome this dilemma by blurring the boundaries between gender equality and equity for both Muslim and secular women and creates a double-edged communication and solidarity problems between those women who both yearn for a better world.

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https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogram/Paper76704.html
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83694

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3.International Sociological Association(ISA) Forum of Sociology:The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World (2016)

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A. N. Saktanber, “Between equity and equality muslim women’s dilemma in the face of gender equality,” presented at the 3.International Sociological Association(ISA) Forum of Sociology:The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World (2016), Vienna, Austria, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogram/Paper76704.html.