Islamic Feminism Course Syllabus McGill WMST302 Winter 2012

WMST302: Islamic Feminism Winter 2012 Lecturer: Fatima Seedat Wednesday 2:35-5:35 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Location: EDUC 216 Office: Second Floor, 3487 Peel Street (IGSF) Office Hours: Wednesday 12-1pm Course Description One emerging articulation of the intersections of Islam and women's agency is a field of scholarship, activism and political inquiry characterised as Islamic feminism, a terrain that is not without contestation. Conceptually, Islamic feminism has been rejected by certain scholars, ‘forecasted’ and promoted by others, and still others have offered a critical engagement with what the category entails. This course will offer students an opportunity to survey and critically engage with all of these debates. Through the writings of Haider Moghissi, Margot Badran, Amina Wadud, Fatima Menissi, Asma Barlas, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Ziba Mir Hosseini, Meyda Yegenoglu, Lamia Zayzafoon, and Saba Mahmood we will explore the intersections of feminism and Islam through post-colonial and critical-race analysis of the politics, ethics and the religious imperatives that constitute this field of academic and activist inquiry. We will also examine the theoretical discourses that have shaped our understandings of women in Islam. The course concludes with case studies where Islamic and feminist discourses intersect in Canadian and international contexts. In its final purpose, the course offers students the conceptual space to talk about, explore, frame and reframe debates on the intersections of Islam and feminism. Course Structure: The course is divided into three broad sections. Section one is a comprehensive introduction to the debates surrounding the intersections of Islam and feminism, from multiple perspectives. Section two offers some theoretical tools through which to read the debates and formulate your own approaches to the debates and section three consists of case studies which provide practical instances of the intersections of Islam and feminism and where you will find use for the debates and theoretical tools developed earlier. Class Format: Each class will include one or more lecture presentations and structured, small group discussions. Time permitting, we will also have structured, larger class discussions, frequently initiated by a video screening. A list of 'for discussion' items accompanies a list of required readings. The 'for discussion' list is open to change as the interests of the class evolve and students suggest materials they'd like to discuss collectively. Evaluation Book Review: 20% (Due February15) The required background readings have been placed on reserve at the Islamic studies library. Select one of these and prepare a book review of 600-700 words. Small Group Presentation: 20% (Confirm your small group presentation dates with me asap. Each student will do two presentations, one before reading week and one thereafter) Choose an article from the “Discussion Readings” scheduled for the class, facilitate a discussion on the article in your group and report the results of the discussion to the class. Your group will already have read the article and therefore you won’t need to take them through an extensive summary of it. Prepare a handout for your group highlighting the main issues in the article and at least two questions for further discussion. Present the questions you’ve raised (not a summary of the article) to the group in a 7 minute presentation. Next, for 20 minutes facilitate a discussion on the questions you’ve raised. Designate someone to take notes as you do this. Finally, take 10 minutes to rewrite, with your group, the presentation of the two question you raised taking into account the discussion you’ve just had. You may be called upon to present this to the class. You will hand in both your first handout and your final collective presentation to be graded. Your colleagues will also grad your presentation of questions and your facilitation of the discussion. Peer Group grading questions: Does the presentation locate the nuances and different perspectives in the debate? 3 points Does the presentation offer a critique of the article? 3 points Are the questions raised thought provoking and inquiring? 3 points Project Presentation: 20% (Confirm your project presentation date for April 4 or April 11 with me asap) The last few class sessions will be used for your project presentations. Prepare and present a 10 minute discussion of your project (if there are less than 10 students in the class the time available for each presentation will increase). You will be evaluated on the organisation and depth of your presentation. You will not be given more than the allotted time to make your presentation so it is advisable to practice your presentation ahead of time and make sure it does not exceed the allotted time. Your presentation must include the following: the question/thesis of your project a brief overview of the issue/locale you’re examining an outline of how you will respond to the question (you may do this through a skeleton of the headings you’ll use in your project) tentative conclusion/s finally, end with at least two though provoking questions that your colleagues can engage you on. Project: 25% (Due Date April18) Your project is a research paper, of not more than 2000 words, analysing the dynamic intersections of Islam and feminism through a specific issue, organisation or locality, using the guidelines below. You are required to show a command of the debates covered in the course as well as some original thinking on the issue. You are not required to, but may, use outside resources. If you do, please be sure to attach a copy or an easily accessible web link for me to use when I evaluate your project. I have proposed some project topics below. Confirm your topic with me no later than February 29 (the week after Reading Week) and also consult with me for further resources on your project. Examine the topic you’ve chosen thus: Identify the different perspectives in the debate, viz. at least two religious identified perspectives at least one secular identified perspective at least one feminist identified perspective should you conclude that any of these perspectives are not present in discussions on your topic, then explain why you think this may be so. Identify which perspective seems to be dominating the debate and why you think this is so Discuss what the possible consequences of this dominant view may be for the other perspectives. Finally, if you haven’t already, comment on how notions of ‘Islam’ and ‘feminism’ feature in the discussions Suggested Project Areas: (Finalise your choice by March 7) Islam, Feminism and ... Sexuality, Homo-nationalism and the SAFRA project Work – Barahmitash Malaysia, Second Wives and SIS Musawah, Citizenship and Qiwama Muslim Personal Law in South Africa Morocco and Mudawwana Reform Egyptian Khula Law Reform Pakistan Hudud ordinances The Shah Bano Case in India Hijab in France, Turkey, Iran or Saudi Quebec’s Niqab Law The Arab Spring Iran’s Green Revolution Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Attendance and Participation: 15% Late Papers, Extensions, and rescheduling presentations No late papers will be accepted except in the case of a documented family or medical emergency. Extensions are available at the discretion of the instructor but are only available before the due date of the assignment. Academic Integrity “McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).” “Do not plagiarize—this means that you are not to pass off as your own the words of others, whether from a book, article, website, or other source. The words of others should be either paraphrased or quoted, and in either case must be properly cited. Students are encouraged to refer to guides such as the MLA Handbook for proper citation practices and to avail themselves on the Library’s conferences on referencing. Guidance for paraphrasing can be found in the MLA Handbook or the Writing Centre (see below). Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the details of McGill’s code of academic integrity, which is available at http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity. Acts of plagiarism will be referred to the Office of the Dean of Students for disciplinary action. Amongst the books on reserve is a guide to paper writing that you could consult.” Disability Services “If you have a disability please contact that instructor to arrange a time to discuss your situation. It would be helpful if you contact that Office for Students with Disabilities at 398-6009 (online at www.mcgill.ca/osd) before you do this. Unfortunately the instructor office is not accessible, but I`ll be happy to arrange office hours at alternate locations.“ University policy concerning e-mail communication with students “In order to address the need for timely and efficient communication, and to provide a better service to its students, McGill University has instituted a policy establishing that the official means of communicating with students will be by e-mail addressed to their McGill Uniform E-mail Address”. Upon registration at McGill, each student is assigned a McGill University Uniform E-mail Address (UEA, consisting normally of [email protected]) and a McGill e-mail box (@po-box.mcgill.ca). “Any official McGill communication with students will be addressed to their McGill UEA. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that time-critical e-mail is accessed, read and acted upon in a timely fashion. This policy applies to all McGill students and to all McGill employees who manage official communications with students.” Suggested Background Readings You may use any of these to prepare for the course and as references to support your work through the course. Also chose one of these (but not the article by Abou-Bakr) for your book review assignment. Ahmed, Leila. 1992. Women and gender in Islam: historical roots of a modern debate. New Haven: Yale University Press. Allen, R & Shawkat M. Toorawa. 2011. Islam : a short guide to the faith. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Barlas, Asma. Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran (University of Texas Press, 2002). Brown, Daniel W. 2009. A New Introduction to Islam. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Mernissi, Fatima. 1991. Women and Islam: an historical and theological enquiry. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Abou-Bakr, Omaima. 2003. "Teaching the Words Of The Prophet: Women Instructors Of The Hadith (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries)". Hawwa. 1 (3): 306-328. Spellberg, D. A. 1994. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'Aisha Bint Abi Bakr. New York: Columbia University Press. Stowasser, Barbara Freyer, Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation Stowasser. (New York: Oxford University Press Wadud, Amina. 1999. Qurʼan and woman: rereading the sacred text from a woman's perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. (second edition) Some Additional Resources: Ali, Kecia. Islam: the key concepts. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/nlebk_208995_AN?sid=410ea642-90c2-4419-b423-a9a350352c7c@sessionmgr110&vid=1 Asra Nomani on Being a Muslim Feminist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0fk9HWkNo Out of the Closet http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2010/10/out-of-the-closet-and-public-life-lesbians-in-indonesia/ Is Islamic feminism just a defence for hijab http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2010/10/is-muslim-feminism-more-than-just-a-hijab-defense/ Gender Apartheid or Respect http://www.aimislam.com/2011/02/22/gender-apartheid-or-respectable-interaction Dairy of a Muslim Feminist http://diaryofamuslimfeminist.wordpress.com/ Muslim Media Watch http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/about-2/ WLUML http://www.wluml.org/ and Musawah http://www.musawah.org/ Islamic Feminism Congress http://feminismeislamic.org/home/ and Baobab http://www.baobabwomen.org/ and SIS http://www.sistersinislam.org.my/ Muslim women filmmakers http://womensvoicesnow.org/watch Safra Project http://www.safraproject.org/ Reading List and Class Schedule LECTURE ONE Jan 11 Course overview and Getting comfortable with Islam and Feminism Course Overview Getting Comfortable Shaista Gohir – Islamic Feminism: Some myth busting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyCm4XdMCfg Nomani vs Lekovic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itJ7ZACsO9o&feature=related Mona El-Tahawi vs Heba Ahmed in the Niqab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpAskcDOcw&feature=related Extract from Kahf, Mohja. 2006. The girl in the tangerine scarf: a novel. New York: Carroll & Graf. LECTURE TWO Jan 18 Introduction to Women in Islam and Other Women in the North American Classroom Introduction to Women in Islam Required Readings Chapter 3: Women and the Rise of Islam and Chapter 4: The Transitional Age - Ahmed, Leila. 1992. Women and gender in Islam: historical roots of a modern debate. New Haven: Yale University Press. (pp41-78) Stowasser, Barbara Freyer, Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation Stowasser. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p13-38 (plus notes 135-144) and p104-18 (plus notes p176-181) Other Women in the North American Classroom Obioma Nnaemeka. Bringing African women into the classroom: rethinking pedagogy and epistemology / – in Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. 2005. African gender studies: theoretical questions and conceptual issues. Houndmills, Basingstoke, England: Palgrave MacMillan. Zayzafoon L.B.Y. 2011. "Teaching About Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom". Foreign Language Annals. 44 (1): 181-233. Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Mohanty, C. T. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Feminist Review , No. 30 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 61-88 http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0141-7789%281988%29%3A30%3C61%3AUWEFSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&origin=openly;oclc;worldcat.org Mohanty , C. T 2003. Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles, C. T. Mohanty Signs , Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 499-535 http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740%282003%2928%3A2%3C499%3A%22WERFS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&origin=openly;oclc;worldcat.org LECTURE THREE Jan 25 Outlining the Debate on Islamic Feminism Required Readings Moghaddam, Valentine http://www.smi.uib.no/seminars/Pensum/Moghadam,%20Valentine.pdf Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 2000. "(Un)Veiling Feminism". Social Text. 18 (3): 29-45. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v018/18.3najmabadi.html Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Hoodfar, Homa. 1999. The women's movement in Iran: women at the crossroads of secularization and Islamization. Paris: Women Living under Muslim Laws. Roza Eftekhari. 2011. “ Zanan: Trials and Successes of a feminist Magazine in Iran” http://www.drsoroush.com/PDF/E-CMO-20011003-Roza_Eftekhari.pdf Sherkat, Shahla. 2009. "Telling the Stories of Iranian Women's Lives". Nieman Reports. 63 (2): 29. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=4e4f603e-daea-46fb-aca1-164eb761f07d%40sessionmgr10&vid=2&hid=19 “‘On the Green Movement” by Ziba Mir Hosseini http://www.wluml.org/node/5858 Library Orientation or Discussion For Discussion: Film clip from Shirin Neshat’s Men without Women and post screening discussion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDnVXsr8Kw LECTURE FOUR Feb 1 Refusing Islam Required Readings Moghissi, Haideh. 1999. Feminism and Islamic fundamentalism: the limits of postmodern analysis. London: Zed Books. Pp33-48 and 125-148 Manji, Irshad. 2004. The trouble with Islam: a Muslim's call for reform in her faith. New York: St. Martin's Press. http://mcgill.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABookServlet?oclcnum=52813979 pp 1-29 & 205-38. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. 2010. Nomad: from Islam to America--a personal journey through the clash of civilizations. New York: Free Press. Introduction pp xi-xx? and also pp 205-236. Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Haideh Moghissi. "Islamic Feminism Revisited." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 31, no. 1 (2011): 76-84. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed July 2, 2011). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v031/31.1.moghissi.pdf Manji, Irshad. 2011. Allah, liberty, and love: the courage to reconcile faith and freedom. New York, NY: Free Press. pp1-12 and 50-85 For Discussion: Submission video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rS8FJyX3gs Faith without fear : Irshad Manji's quest c2007 http://catalogue.mcgill.ca.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca/F/5EXT2LAYYCKV3GUN7DXLLEYYCGC1KA71CF8DJUDR4CSI38QDPM-49864?func=full-set-set&set_number=038290&set_entry=000018&format=999 LECTURE FIVE Feb 8 Refusing Feminism Required Readings Heba Rauf – rethinking secularism … rethinking feminism http://www.suhaibwebb.com/islam-studies/rethinking-secularism-%E2%80%A6-rethinking-feminism-by-dr-heba-raouf-ezzat/ Wadud, Amina. 2006. Inside the gender Jihad: women's reform in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld. Ch1: What’s in a name - 14-54 and Ch 2: The Challenges of teaching… pp55-86 Barlas, Asma Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative http://www.asmabarlas.com/TALKS/Finland_07.pdf Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Wadud, Amina. 2000. Alternative Qur’an interpretations in windows on Faith in Webb, Gisela (ed). Windows of faith: Muslim women scholar-activists in North America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. Preface in the second edition Wadud, Amina. 1999. Qurʼan and woman: rereading the sacred text from a woman's perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. Maryam Jameelah – feminism and islam plus ehr website http://maryam--jameelah.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-others-say-about-maryam-jameelahs.html and http://maryam--jameelah.blogspot.com/2009/01/feminist-movement-and-muslim-woman.html Kausar, Zinat. 2006. Muslim women at the crossroads: the rights of women in Islam and general Muslim practices. Batu Caves, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Thinker's Library. For Discussion: Tariq Ramadan on Islamic Feminism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do--YdH-888 Hama Yusuf on hijab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FzC03otTc Zakir Naik on women in Islam http://www.youtube.com/user/ShahadahProject#p/search/2/pvi-g88d5XI Abduraheem Green on women in Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRs7Us-a6CU&feature=relmfu Yasir Qadhi on the male bias: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mz8nTTS27g LECTURE SIX Feb 15 Claiming Islam and Claiming Feminism (BOOK REVIEW DUE) Required Readings Al-Hibri, Aziza. 2003. ‘Hagar on my Mind’ in Groenhout, Ruth E., and Marya Bower (eds.). Philosophy, feminism, and faith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp199-210 Hasan, Riffat. 1999. ‘Feminism in Islam’ in Sharma, Arvind, and Katherine K. Young (eds.). Feminism and world religions. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. pp248-278 Badran, Margot. 1999. Toward Islamic feminisms : a look at the Middle East in Afsaruddin, Asma, and Anan Ameri (eds.). Hermeneutics and honor: negotiating female "public" space in Islamic/ate societies. Cambridge, Mass: Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press. pp159-189 Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Cooke, Miriam. 2001. Women claim Islam: creating Islamic feminism through literature. New York: Routledge. pp vii-xxviii and 53-64 Badran, Margot – Islamic Feminism Whats in a name? In Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 17 - 23 January 2002, Issue No.569 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/569/cu1.htm Cooke, Miriam. 2010. Nazira Zeineddine: a pioneer of Islamic feminism. Oxford, England: Oneworld. (Lebanon) (book) Shaʻrāwī, Hudá, and Margot Badran. 1986. Harem years: the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist (1879-1924). London: Virago. (book) Fatima Adamu - Internationalism Within Difference: Feminism and Muslim Women by Dr. Fatima L Adamu, Department of Sociology, Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria http://web.uct.ac.za/org/gwsafrica/african%20feminist%20thinkers/adamu/adamu%20publication7.htm published at ‘Gender and Women’s Studies for Africa’s Transformation’ http://web.uct.ac.za/org/gwsafrica/ Jeenah, Na'eem. 2006. "The national liberation struggle and Islamic feminisms in South Africa". Women's Studies International Forum. 29 (1): 27 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=271772&_user=458507&_pii=S0277539505000907&_check=y&_origin=&_coverDate=28-Feb-2006&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlV-zSkWb&md5=25f01c0bbb3ba4186f96793541d1532b/1-s2.0-S0277539505000907-main.pdf For Discussion: http://muftah.org/?p=1660 Gender & the Arab Spring – VIDEO PRESENTATION Ingrid mattson on women in islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiyfm1539hM&feature=related Amina Wadud on Women in reform Movements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9F52spTys FEB21-24 READING WEEK FEB 21-24 LECTURE SEVEN Feb 29 Patriarchy and Colonialism Required Readings Kandiyoti, Deniz 1991. ‘Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective’ in Keddie, Nikki R., and Beth Baron (eds.). Women in Middle Eastern history: shifting boundaries in sex and gender. New Haven: Yale University Press. Kandiyoti, Deniz. 1998. “Gender, power and contestation: 'rethinking bargaining with patriarchy'” in Jackson, Cecile, and Ruth Pearson (eds). Feminist visions of development: gender analysis and policy. London: Routledge. "Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies Lila Abu-Lughod in McCann, Carole R., and Seung-Kyung Kim. 2003. Feminist theory reader: local and global perspectives. New York: Routledge. pp203-212 Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Kahf, Mohja. 1999. Western representations of the Muslim woman: from termagant to odalisque. Austin: University of Texas Press. Introduction (pp1-10) Ahmed, Sara ‘Close Encounters: Feminism and/in 'The Globe'.’ In Ahmed, Sara. 2000. Strange encounters: embodied others in post-coloniality. London: Routledge. pp167-182 LECTURE EIGHT Mar 7 Orientalism and Post-colonialism (FINALISE THE TOPIC FOR YOUR PROJECT) Lazreg, Marnia. 2005. “Decolonizing Feminism” in Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́ (ed.). African gender studies: theoretical questions and conceptual issues. Houndmills, Basingstoke, England: Palgrave MacMillan. (pp67-79) (scan) Zine, Jasmin. 2006. "Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: The Politics of Muslim Women's Feminist Engagement". Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. 3 (1). Sunera Thobani. 2007.White Wars: Western feminism and the War on Terror Feminist Theory August Vol.8 No.2 pp 169-185 http://fty.sagepub.com/content/8/2/169.full.pdf+html Badran, Margot. ‘Between Secular and Islamic Feminism(s): Reflections the Middle East and Beyond’ in Feminism in Islam pp300-323 Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Minh-ha, Trinh T. 2006.Writing postcoloniality and feminism in Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin (eds.). The post-colonial studies reader. London: Routledge. pp 246-249 Oyewumi, Oyeronke. 2004.Conceptualizing Gender: ‘The Eurocentric Foundations of feminist concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies’ in African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms. CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 1, Dakar, CODESRIA, 2004, 110 p., ISBN: 2-86978-138-5 (pp1-8) http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/OYEWUMI.pdf Bouteldja, Houria. 2010. A native in the republic in Gemie, Sharif (ed.) French Muslims: new voices in contemporary France. Cardiff: University of Wales Press Boutledja, Houria. On the privilege of white solidarity. http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/english/white-women-and-the-priviledge-of-solidarity.html Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000. Provincializing Europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp 3-22 Göle, Nilüfer. 2000. "Snapshots of Islamic Modernities". Daedalus. 129 (1): 91-117. http://www.social-sciences-and-humanities.com/pdf/snapshots-of-islamic-modernity.pdf Saadia Toor http://barnard.edu/sfonline/religion/toor_01.htm printer version http://barnard.edu/sfonline/religion/print_toor.htm For Discussion: Clip from Justice at Agadez divorce based on domestic violence http://catalogue.mcgill.ca.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca/F/5EXT2LAYYCKV3GUN7DXLLEYYCGC1KA71CF8DJUDR4CSI38QDPM-53262?func=find-b&find_code=WHD&adjacent=1&request=agadez Anisah: Achanese Women Subdistrict Head faces resistance http://womensvoicesnow.org/watchfilm/anisah/ LECTURE NINE Mar14 Case Study – Canada Required Readings Canada: Women’s experience of the Shariah as ideology Source: Ziba Mir-Hosseini http://www.wluml.org/node/2266 Razack, Sherene. 2007. Casting out: the eviction of Muslims from western law and politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp145-171 Bakht, Natasha. 2006. Were Muslim barbarians really knocking on the gates of Ontario? the religious arbitration controversy - another perspective. S.l: s.n.]. http://www.lawsite.ca/olr_barbarians-arb_article.pdf Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Ghobadzadeh, Naser. 2010. "A multiculturalism-feminism dispute: Muslim women and the Sharia debate in Canada and Australia". Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 48 (3): 301-319. Bhimani, Salima. 2003. Majalis al-ilm, sessions of knowledge: reclaiming and representing the lives of Muslim women = Al-nisāʻ : majalis al- ʻilm. Toronto: TSAR Moosa, Zohra. 2010. Balancing women’s rights with freedom of religion: the case against parallel legal systems for Muslim women in the UK in State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples pp43-47 http://www.minorityrights.org/10068/state-of-the-worlds-minorities/state-of-the-worlds-minorities-and-indigenous-peoples-2010.html Canadian Council of Muslim Women statement regarding Muslim congregational prayer services at Ontario’s public schools http://www.wluml.org/news/canada-canadian-council-muslim-women-statement-regarding-muslim-congregational-prayer-services- For Discussion: Women in mosque’s 3 segments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPgQtDB318Y and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAtRQsiuqI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlx_QrmC9IE&feature=related LECTURE TEN March 21 Case Study – Transnational Hijab Required Readings Jiwani, Yasmin. 2010. Doubling discourses and the veiled other : mediations of race and gender in Canadian media in States of race: critical race feminism for the 21st century. Toronto: Between the Lines. Razack, Sherene, Malinda Sharon Smith, and Sunera Thobani. Al-Saji, Alia. 2010. The racialization of Muslim veils: A philosophical analysis Philosophy & Social Criticism October 2010 36: 875-902, http://psc.sagepub.com/content/36/8/875.full.pdf+html Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Khan, Sheema. 2009. Of hockey and hijab: reflections of a Canadian Muslim woman. Toronto: TSAR Books. Cooke, Miriam. 2008. "Deploying the Muslimwoman". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 24 (1): 91-119 (with responses by Jasmin Zine, Margot Badran, Fawzia Ahmad and Minoo Moallem) http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=4339ace0-5f8d-4f20-ad96-5fccea9a7f83%40sessionmgr13&vid=1&hid=17&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=rfh&AN=ATLA0001703274 Moors, Annelies 2011. NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab: Niqab activism, satire and street art Feminist Review 98, pp128–135 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v98/n1/pdf/fr201111a.pdf Scott, Joan Wallach. 2007. The politics of the veil. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. (pp1-17) For Discussion: princess hijab http://www.babelgum.com/5004778 LECTURE ELEVEN March 28 Case Study – Nigeria Required Readings Imam , Ayesha. 2001. The Muslim religious right ("fundamentalists") and sexualit in Jung, Patricia Beattie, Mary E. Hunt, and Radhika Balakrishnan (eds.) Good sex: feminist perspectives from the world's religions. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press http://www.wluml.org/node/277 Quraishi, Asifa. 2011. What If Sharia Weren’t the Enemy? Rethinking International Women’s Rights Advocacy on Islamic Law. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 25, No. 5, 2011 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1762767 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1762767 Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) Shari’ah in Nigeria: the Journey so Far http://www.baobabwomen.org/Sharia%20&%20BAOBAB%20publication.pdf Hauwa Ibrahim on the Case http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/how_to_fight_sharia_law_use_sharia_muslim_lawyer_says/ Mahmood, Saba. 2005. Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. For Discussion: Video by Sofia Ek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAxEwG8IpQg Clip from Justice at Agadez (first section on a the court) Clip from Divorce: Iranian Style LECTURE TWELVE April 4 Transnational Feminist Organising and Malaysia Required Readings Zainah Anwar. 2009. Negotiating gender rights under religious law in Malaysiain Vogt, Kari, Lena Larsen, and Christian Moe. New directions in Islamic thought: exploring reform and Muslim tradition. London: I.B. Tauris. Moll Y. 2009. ""People like us" in pursuit of God and rights: Islamic feminist discourse and sisters in Islam in Malaysia". Journal of International Women's Studies. 11 (1): 40-55. http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/Nov09/Yasmin.pdf Small Group Presentation Readings (choose one) SIS website http://www.sistersinislam.org.my/ Musawah Website http://www.musawah.org/ WISE Website http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/ For Discussion: Musawah video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6J6k6k4pSY Safra Project http://www.safraproject.org/ Tamsila Tauqar (Chair of Safra) will Skype in LECTURE THIRTEEN April 4 Presentations LECTURE FOURTEEN Apr11 Presentations Project April 18 Due Date 13