Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Studying women who live either under Muslim law, or in
societies with predominantly Muslim population where Islam prevails as an
important cultural conduct –if not necessarily as a legal code--embodies
specific problems. However, in the last decades with the growing Muslim
population of Western societies we started facing with another challenging
question, i.e. the question of Muslim women who live under Secular Law and
non-Muslim societies. Both of these situations invites us to develop a particular
perspective to examine the social situation of women by employing certain
analytical tools which are mostly developed within the framework of feminist
scholarship to explore the social position of women in contemporary world
vis-â-vis patriarchal inequalities which operate through cultural practices,
political regimes, economic projects and so on. Thus, this course attempts to
make a critical reading of the prevailing discourses on the social situation of
Muslim women by exploring the place and the identity of women in Muslim and
non-Muslim societies with particular reference to Islamisms in the Middle East,
Europe and Turkey. This reading, however, does not suggest a critique of the
discourses of orientalism, third worldism, or fundamentalism as such, but
rather, addresses itself to the diverse interplay between the global and
indigenous discourses produced to explore the position of women in Muslim and
non-Muslim societies and these discourses' points of intersection with projects
of modernization with a particular emphasis on the question of women's rights.