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  1. Women, men, and patriarchal bargaining in an islamic sufi order: The tijaniyya in Kano, nigeria, 1937 to the present.Alaine S. Hutson - 2001 - Gender and Society 15 (5):734-753.
    This article describes the rules and scripts that operate in a sub-Saharan African system, the Tijaniyya Islamic Sufi order in Kano, Nigeria. It analyzes the patriarchal bargains between women and men in the order and reveals how the actions of Muslim women with positions of spiritual authority were both independent and shaped by the order's patriarchy. The author argues that larger shifts across several decades in the Islamic world, the international Tijaniyya leadership, and the Nigerian state allowed Kano Tijaniyya women (...)
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  • Women's agency and household diplomacy: Negotiating fundamentalism.Melodye Lehnerer & Shahin Gerami - 2001 - Gender and Society 15 (4):556-573.
    The overall oppressive effect on women's rights of religious fundamentalism has been well documented in the literature. When looking at women's resistance to fundamentalism, it is important to examine not only organized efforts but individual women's agency in subverting or co-opting these movements toward their own ends. Using a series of narratives, the authors discuss four strategies used by Iranian women to negotiate the patriarchal practices of Islamic fundamentalism. These women crafted agency by responding to the demands of family and (...)
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  • Constructing Spiritual Motherhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Casey Clevenger - 2020 - Gender and Society 34 (2):307-330.
    Drawing on an ethnographic study of Roman Catholic sisters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I show how women in the Global South draw on religious imagery to redefine cultural ideals of womanhood and family responsibility. By taking the religious vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, the Congolese sisters I interviewed seemingly betray local expectations regarding women’s responsibility to reproduce and repair the clan. Although sisters’ vows subject them to social ridicule for violating cultural expectations to bear children and support (...)
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