This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women's limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur'an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women's perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.
| ISBN: | 9783319737904 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 2018 |
| Author: | Sarwar Alam |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 286 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology Feminism and feminist theory Social groups: religious groups and communities Social and cultural anthropology Theology Islam |