Tracking epistemic violence in Hamas gender ideology : Islamist women's movement and its discontents in Gaza

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Abstract

![CDATA[This paper comes within the context of exploring the possibilities of clearing up the conflation between social coercion and religion in communities where its population, and women particularly, are in a “submerged status”. It historically examines the Islamist gender ideology of Hamas and the role of Islamist women in social and political mobilization in the Gaza Strip. It argues that Hamas has been pragmatic when faced with women’s issues, but its ideology has never changed or been contradictory. Hamas’ neoconservative view of women is based on both religious doctrines and public support for women’s activism. However, there is unchangeable essence of a “Muslim” women’s roles and its boundaries that are still confined within the traditional reading of the sacred texts. The author contends that this one interpretation has been limiting women to a hegemonic, male-dominated gender ideology, and argues that Islamist women are not having access to challenge the conservative norms that are usually justified under the name of Islam. They are also not inaugurating any Islamic reforms of the existing discriminatory system in a patriarchal society like Gaza. This constitutes an epistemic violence because of the intersecting levels of historical oppression they faced first as Palestinians who have been colonized for decades, and second as women living in a patriarchal society.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArab Graduate Students Conference, First Round, 24-26 March 2018, Doha, Qatar
PublisherArab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Number of pages1
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventArab Graduate Students Conference -
Duration: 1 Jan 2018 → …

Conference

ConferenceArab Graduate Students Conference
Period1/01/18 → …

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