Despite the increasing feminist readings of religion, the broader women’s movement frequently overlooks religion, and the result is often an…
A women’s march without God (the Father)
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Taming the Muslim woman
The Muslim woman figures as one of the central anchor points of the “Muslim question.” Integrated into a discourse of…
Pine knot woman
The family selection specialist described Mrs. Barclay as “a thin person of the ‘pine knot’ variety.” Was it her own…
Epic lives
When the editors asked me to ponder the question “Is this all there is?” my mind went immediately to the…
The public voice of Muslim women
In an essay here back in 2011, I sounded the alarm about the ubiquity and mainstreaming of hate speech directed…
CFP: Gender & Society
The Committee for the Study of Religion at the CUNY Graduate Center has announced a call for papers for its Special Issue of Gender &…
Group home for prospective nuns
In a recent article from the Religion News Service, Bruce Nolan discusses a new group home for single women who…
Misogyny and the Muslim woman
At The Atlantic, Max Fisher considers the sources of misogyny in the Middle East in light of recent conversations surrounding…
Secularism and the freedom to transform lives
In this post I explore the case of Bangladesh: the state of secularism there and the tensions and polemics that…
Love, InshAllah
Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of…