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Between Dialogue and Contestation: Gender, Islam, and the Challenges of a Malian Public Sphere

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIslam, Politics, Anthropology
Pages91-106
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 20 2010

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Emerging Malian public sphere and challenges - women facing as they engage within wider publics
  • Gender debates in Mali, neoliberal era - privileged arena for articulation of conflicting ideas of social order
  • Islam, as authoritative idiom - women questioning power relationships within Malian society
  • Legislative projects and public debates - on gender and family in Mali
  • Malian public sphere, gender, Islam, and challenges - between dialogue and contestation
  • Malian women activists, rhetorically - asserting their distance from Western feminism
  • Muslim ruler and jihad leader al-Hajj Umar Tall - leader of CNID, motion for legal recognition of religious marriages
  • Nature and modalities of gender debates - reflecting broadly on Malian public sphere
  • Women's linguistic practices - different from men's
  • Women's rights, challenging adult males' power - over household members and women

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