Item Detail
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Piela, Anna
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'Women are Believers in Their Own Right': One Muslim Woman's Challenge to Dominant Discourses Shaping Gender Relations in Islam
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Muslim World
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2013
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13-Jul
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103
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3
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389
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14
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The article explores the ways in which some Muslim women participate in the debate about their having rights and empowerment, by analyzing with the use of the Foucauldian approach, of a text that draws from discourses written by a Muslim woman and published in a women-only discussion group. The author explains that Foucauldian analysis is an approach that emphasizes on certain concepts including power, knowledge, and discourse, to know about power underpinning social actions.