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Gender Anthropology in the Middle East: The Politics of Muslim Women’s Misrepresentation Saddeka Arebi The Western view of the role of women in Muslim societies presents a strikingly ambivalent attitude.
Also, it enables us to be cognizant of a structured irony in the politics of studying Muslim women, whether for practical colonial purposes, or for intellectual orientalist aims.
Gender Relations in Existing Literature‘ The idea of a presumed structural opposition between men and women in Muslim society also seems to be a consequence of feminist literature which attempted to explain women’s “subordination” in terms of universal pub- lic/domestic dichotomies.
Within a similar framework, Joseph suggests the study of the family, especially in its relationship to the political culture, as one of the areas which should be included in gender studies dealing with the Middle East.
Feminism: East and West The fact is that Muslim women are not unaware of the general impact of certain changes.
The second reason why Muslim women do not relate to the Western model is the insistence of Western movements that family and kinship ties are a hindrance to women’s liberation.
Feminist literature by Westerners, Third World feminists, or even by some Middle Eastern women with a Marxist bent, generally presents Muslim women as a prey fought over with equal ferocity by Islam and the colonizing West (e.
“The Changing Muslim Family of the Middle East.
Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Ioices of Change.