Laila Makboul
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474467476
- eISBN:
- 9781474491204
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467476.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter examines the phenomenon of female intellectual preachers (dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt) in Saudi Arabia, their engagement in the new media and by extension their participation in the public ...
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This chapter examines the phenomenon of female intellectual preachers (dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt) in Saudi Arabia, their engagement in the new media and by extension their participation in the public sphere. Having their public participation conditioned on preserving strict physical gender segregation, this chapter argues that the new media have facilitated the engagement and presence of the dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt in the wider public on an unprecedented level. However, new challenges in terms of transgressions of constructed gender norms and exposure to increased public criticism and political vulnerability have also followed their presence in the new media. Consequently, this chapter contends that although the new media has been utilized to permeate the public sphere and, in many ways, has revolutionized their public participation, it has also altered the engagement of dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt in profound ways and ultimately exposed them to greater social and political vulnerability.Less
This chapter examines the phenomenon of female intellectual preachers (dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt) in Saudi Arabia, their engagement in the new media and by extension their participation in the public sphere. Having their public participation conditioned on preserving strict physical gender segregation, this chapter argues that the new media have facilitated the engagement and presence of the dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt in the wider public on an unprecedented level. However, new challenges in terms of transgressions of constructed gender norms and exposure to increased public criticism and political vulnerability have also followed their presence in the new media. Consequently, this chapter contends that although the new media has been utilized to permeate the public sphere and, in many ways, has revolutionized their public participation, it has also altered the engagement of dāʿiyāt muthaqqafāt in profound ways and ultimately exposed them to greater social and political vulnerability.
Brittney C. Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252040993
- eISBN:
- 9780252099540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040993.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
What does it mean and what has it meant to be a Black female intellectual? What does it mean to be a race woman? When and where are the sites of race women’s becoming? Brittney Cooper argues that to ...
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What does it mean and what has it meant to be a Black female intellectual? What does it mean to be a race woman? When and where are the sites of race women’s becoming? Brittney Cooper argues that to arrive at an answer to the first question, we must diligently interrogate and examine the latter questions. Race women were the first Black women intellectuals. As they entered into public racial leadership roles beyond the church in the decades after Reconstruction, they explicitly fashioned for themselves a public duty to serve their people through diligent and careful intellectual work and attention to “proving the intellectual character” of the race. Pauline Hopkins declared two key tasks attached to the work of the “true race-woman.” They were “to study” and “to discuss” “all phases of the race question.” Not only were these women institution builders and activists; they declared themselves public thinkers on race questions. Though Hopkins and her colleagues were part of a critical mass of public Black women thinkers in the 1890s, they joined a longer list of Black women who had been at the forefront of debates over “the woman question” and the role of Black women in public life throughout the 1800s.Less
What does it mean and what has it meant to be a Black female intellectual? What does it mean to be a race woman? When and where are the sites of race women’s becoming? Brittney Cooper argues that to arrive at an answer to the first question, we must diligently interrogate and examine the latter questions. Race women were the first Black women intellectuals. As they entered into public racial leadership roles beyond the church in the decades after Reconstruction, they explicitly fashioned for themselves a public duty to serve their people through diligent and careful intellectual work and attention to “proving the intellectual character” of the race. Pauline Hopkins declared two key tasks attached to the work of the “true race-woman.” They were “to study” and “to discuss” “all phases of the race question.” Not only were these women institution builders and activists; they declared themselves public thinkers on race questions. Though Hopkins and her colleagues were part of a critical mass of public Black women thinkers in the 1890s, they joined a longer list of Black women who had been at the forefront of debates over “the woman question” and the role of Black women in public life throughout the 1800s.
Jan R. Stenger
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- February 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780198869788
- eISBN:
- 9780191912481
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198869788.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter addresses the relationship between education and gender in late antique literature. It deals with the strong presence of women intellectuals in the discourse on learning and formation. ...
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This chapter addresses the relationship between education and gender in late antique literature. It deals with the strong presence of women intellectuals in the discourse on learning and formation. Ancient intellectual culture and schooling were dominated by men, and the mechanisms of education contributed to social reproduction, that is, the stabilization of primarily male values and norms. However, a considerable number of late antique texts feature exceptional women who made inroads into this territory and attained recognition for their learning and wisdom. These portrayals shine light on types of intellectual and ethical formation situated outside the institutionalized schools. This was intended to challenge the dominant male model of formal education that placed a premium on the external effects and social dividends of schooling. By looking at education from the perspective of women, the portraits adumbrated an alternative to the principles of established schooling: an inward-looking model of education that shifted the balance toward self-transformation and self-perfection.Less
This chapter addresses the relationship between education and gender in late antique literature. It deals with the strong presence of women intellectuals in the discourse on learning and formation. Ancient intellectual culture and schooling were dominated by men, and the mechanisms of education contributed to social reproduction, that is, the stabilization of primarily male values and norms. However, a considerable number of late antique texts feature exceptional women who made inroads into this territory and attained recognition for their learning and wisdom. These portrayals shine light on types of intellectual and ethical formation situated outside the institutionalized schools. This was intended to challenge the dominant male model of formal education that placed a premium on the external effects and social dividends of schooling. By looking at education from the perspective of women, the portraits adumbrated an alternative to the principles of established schooling: an inward-looking model of education that shifted the balance toward self-transformation and self-perfection.
Rita Bode
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062815
- eISBN:
- 9780813051772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062815.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter 4 examines Wharton’s first novel, the historical fiction The Valley of Decision, in the context of Wharton’s knowledge of and appreciation for Italy that began with her family’s European ...
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Chapter 4 examines Wharton’s first novel, the historical fiction The Valley of Decision, in the context of Wharton’s knowledge of and appreciation for Italy that began with her family’s European stays during Wharton’s childhood. In The Valley of Decision, Wharton engages Italian womanhood as a way of exploring womankind’s relationship to learning and culture. The chapter traces Wharton’s admiration for and literary indebtedness to her Victorian predecessor, George Eliot—a writer Wharton read from early on as her letters to Anna Bahlman indicate—and discusses how Wharton’s own female intellectual, Fulvia, is not a replication of but rather a response to Eliot’s Romola.Less
Chapter 4 examines Wharton’s first novel, the historical fiction The Valley of Decision, in the context of Wharton’s knowledge of and appreciation for Italy that began with her family’s European stays during Wharton’s childhood. In The Valley of Decision, Wharton engages Italian womanhood as a way of exploring womankind’s relationship to learning and culture. The chapter traces Wharton’s admiration for and literary indebtedness to her Victorian predecessor, George Eliot—a writer Wharton read from early on as her letters to Anna Bahlman indicate—and discusses how Wharton’s own female intellectual, Fulvia, is not a replication of but rather a response to Eliot’s Romola.
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113539
- eISBN:
- 9781800340473
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113539.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This concluding chapter explains that by listening to female voices rather than focusing exclusively on male historical sources, it has been possible to show that the enlightened Jewish women ...
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This concluding chapter explains that by listening to female voices rather than focusing exclusively on male historical sources, it has been possible to show that the enlightened Jewish women discussed in this book were neither simple bystanders in the enlightened world of their time nor mere mediators who facilitated the cultural activity of men. The ample evidence presented clearly positions these women as both agents of culture and creators of culture: as intellectuals in their own right. These Jewish women turned their own critical eyes on the social, cultural, and at times political reality around them, and drew on basic principles of the Enlightenment to support their claim to the right to participate, as women, in the advancement of public reason. In this spirit, they applied gender criticism to the dominant discourse, calling into question the social and cultural norms that constrained women's lives, scrutinizing even the patriarchal institution of marriage, in extreme cases to the point of undermining its foundations. Ultimately, the Enlightenment was not only an influence on the cultural world of these women, it is revealed as a vital element in understanding their thought and actions. The chapter then presents a comparison between this group of women and the maskilim, and also with nineteenth-century maskilot and Jewish female intellectuals.Less
This concluding chapter explains that by listening to female voices rather than focusing exclusively on male historical sources, it has been possible to show that the enlightened Jewish women discussed in this book were neither simple bystanders in the enlightened world of their time nor mere mediators who facilitated the cultural activity of men. The ample evidence presented clearly positions these women as both agents of culture and creators of culture: as intellectuals in their own right. These Jewish women turned their own critical eyes on the social, cultural, and at times political reality around them, and drew on basic principles of the Enlightenment to support their claim to the right to participate, as women, in the advancement of public reason. In this spirit, they applied gender criticism to the dominant discourse, calling into question the social and cultural norms that constrained women's lives, scrutinizing even the patriarchal institution of marriage, in extreme cases to the point of undermining its foundations. Ultimately, the Enlightenment was not only an influence on the cultural world of these women, it is revealed as a vital element in understanding their thought and actions. The chapter then presents a comparison between this group of women and the maskilim, and also with nineteenth-century maskilot and Jewish female intellectuals.
Khairudin Aljunied
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474408882
- eISBN:
- 9781474430432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408882.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter argues that women have contributed extensively to the promotion of gender cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia. It showcases hijab activists as well as female intellectuals and their ...
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This chapter argues that women have contributed extensively to the promotion of gender cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia. It showcases hijab activists as well as female intellectuals and their interrogation of the excesses of Western feminism. These women have questioned the insularity of a segment of the Southeast Asian community and have courageously campaigned for their inclusion in workplaces that are prejudiced against women who wear headscarves. In campaigning for the hijab and presenting the modesty of Muslim women in innovative ways and styles, these women have revolutionised the concept of modesty in modern societies while reformulating commonplace understandings of gender justice in Muslim Southeast Asia.Less
This chapter argues that women have contributed extensively to the promotion of gender cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia. It showcases hijab activists as well as female intellectuals and their interrogation of the excesses of Western feminism. These women have questioned the insularity of a segment of the Southeast Asian community and have courageously campaigned for their inclusion in workplaces that are prejudiced against women who wear headscarves. In campaigning for the hijab and presenting the modesty of Muslim women in innovative ways and styles, these women have revolutionised the concept of modesty in modern societies while reformulating commonplace understandings of gender justice in Muslim Southeast Asia.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804769532
- eISBN:
- 9780804777889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804769532.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This short story, written by Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, focuses on a wedding, to show how female intellectuals like Jacqueline herself dealt with the pressure to conform in 1930s Egypt, and also ...
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This short story, written by Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, focuses on a wedding, to show how female intellectuals like Jacqueline herself dealt with the pressure to conform in 1930s Egypt, and also reflects her resistance to the patriarchal society in which she was raised.Less
This short story, written by Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, focuses on a wedding, to show how female intellectuals like Jacqueline herself dealt with the pressure to conform in 1930s Egypt, and also reflects her resistance to the patriarchal society in which she was raised.
