Islamic Feminism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality
Feminismo islámico, interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
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This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of Muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global structures that produce and reproduce the relations of inequality that affect Muslim women, a decolonial intersectional approach can take the expanding field of Islamic feminism even further.
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