Religion, Gender and Citizenship Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism (avsluttet)

Dette bokprosjektet er et samarbeid med Line Nyhagen, Loughborough University og bygger på en delstudie i Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements(FEMCIT 2007-2011). Temaet i boka er hvordan tro kan være både en ressurs og en barriere for kristne og muslimske kvinners medborgerskap. Den diskuterer også troende kvinners syn på likestilling og feminisme, og bygger på intervjuer med troende kvinner i England, Norge og Spania. Utgitt på Palgrave Macmillan. Lenke.

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Religion, Gender and Citizenship. Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism. Palgrave Macmillian 2016.

 

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How do religious women think about citizenship, and how do they practice citizenship in everyday life? How important is faith in their lives, and how is religion bound up with other identities such as gender and nationality? What are their views on 'gender equality', women's movements and feminism? The answers offered by this book are complex. Religion can be viewed as both a resource and a barrier to women's participation.

The interviewed women talk about citizenship in terms of participation, belonging, love, care, tolerance and respect. Some seek gender equality within their religious communities, while others accept different roles and spaces for women. 'Natural' differences between women and men and their equal value are emphasized more than equal rights. Women's movements are viewed as having made positive contributions to women's status, but interviewees are also critical of claims related to abortion and divorce, and of feminism's allegedly selfish, unwomanly, anti-men and power-seeking stance. In the interviews, Christian privilege is largely invisible and silenced, while Muslim disadvantage is both visible and articulated. Line Nyhagen and Beatrice Halsaa unpack and make sense of these findings, discussing potential implications for the relationship between religion, gender and feminism.

 

Publisert 26. juni 2014 14:44 - Sist endret 30. jan. 2019 15:03