'Indigenous feminisms' as a locus for development?

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2009
Country:
China
Document Type:
Conference Paper
Theme:
Social Change
First published:
1 January 2009
Authors:
Jaschok, M.

Abstract

The topic of 'indigenous feminism' is discussed, using work from China鈥檚 Muslim contexts to illustrate how the discourses on indigenous feminism are implicated in projects of state and community formation, requiring sensitive and nuanced interpretations of how women鈥檚 indigenous strategies might be seen as either complicit in, or subversive of, religious and secular patriarchal strategies of legitimization of the status quo.

Citation

Presented at WEMC Symposium: 鈥業nterrogating Gendered Power Structures: Developing a transformative research framework for women鈥檚 empowerment in Muslim contexts鈥�. 25 February 2009, City University of Hong Kong. 10 pp.

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