Islamist women's Politics and Gender Activism A Case Study from Sudan
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This study is about al-Akhwat al-Muslimat— the Islamist women’s group formed by the Sudanese Islamist movement to counter among other things the communist influence among Sudanese women’s associations. This study seeks both to evaluate al-Akhwat political and gender activism and deconstruct the stereotype of Islamist/Muslim women as passive, without agency and perpetuating women’s subordination. Instead, al-Akhwat to reiterate Hale’s idiom (1997) are far more than the ‘Greek Chorus’ of the Islamist movement; they have been among the central organizers and socializers.
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