A Third Language

Being Muslim ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 182-212
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Third Language ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Chapter Five presents the voices of four U.S. Muslim women who actively incorporate social justice practices into their engagements with Islam: Sister Aisha Al-Adawiya, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Laila Al-Marayati, and Hazel Gomez. Each woman articulates clear relationships with gender justice and feminism in their lives. The chapter explores how their work and perspectives refract the racial and gendered legacies of U.S. Muslim women across the last century. It introduces the concept of Muslim feminism to link their experiences across racial, ethnic, and generational boundaries.

Women's Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Relational Framework ◽  
Individual Success

Informed by practices of women’s activism in India, this book proposes a feminist social justice framework to address the wide range of issues women face globally, including economic exploitation; sexist oppression; racial, ethnic, and caste oppression; and cultural imperialism. The feminist social justice framework provides an alternative to mainstream philosophical frameworks that analyze and promote gender justice globally: universal human rights, economic projects such as microfinance, and cosmopolitanism. These frameworks share a commitment to individualism and abstract universalism that underlie certain liberal and neoliberal approaches to justice. Arguing that these frameworks emphasize individualism over interdependence, similarity over diversity, and individual success over collective capacity, McLaren draws on the work of Rabindranath Tagore to develop the concept of relational cosmopolitanism. Relational cosmopolitanism prioritizes our connections, while acknowledging power differences. Extending Iris Young’s theory of political responsibility, McLaren shows how Fair Trade connects to the economic solidarity movement. The Self-Employed Women’s Association and MarketPlace India empower women through access to livelihoods as well as fostering leadership capabilities that allow them to challenge structural injustice through political and social activism. Their struggles to resist economic exploitation and gender oppression through collective action show the importance of challenging individualist approaches to achieving gender justice. The book concludes with a call for a shift in our thinking and practice toward reimagining the possibilities for justice from a relational framework, from independence to interdependence, from identity to intersectionality, and from interest to sociopolitical imagination.

The Politics of US Latino Literature and American Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 231-248
Author(s):  
Ramón J. Guerra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Latino Literature ◽  
The Common ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This chapter examines the development of Latino literature in the United States during the time when realism emerged as a dominant aesthetic representation. Beginning with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and including the migrations resulting from the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Mexican Revolution (1910), Latinos in the United States began to realistically craft an identity served by a sense of displacement. Latinos living in the United States as a result of migration or exile were concerned with similar issues, including but not limited to their predominant status as working-class, loss of homeland and culture, social justice, and racial/ethnic profiling or discrimination. The literature produced during the latter part of the nineteenth century by some Latinos began to merge the influence of romantic style with a more socially conscious manner to reproduce the lives of ordinary men and women, draw out the specifics of their existence, characterize their dialects, and connect larger issues to the concerns of the common man, among other realist techniques.

scholarly journals Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulki Al-Sharmani
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Alternative Description ◽  
Women Scholars ◽  
Alternative Gender ◽  
New Religion

This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely termed as Islamic Feminism, are undertaken by Muslim women scholars from different countries who are committed to their religious faith and who are working towards the production of alternative, gender-sensitive religious knowledge. The paper has three aims: 1) to review the contestations about the definition, categorization, goals, and significance of what has been termed Islamic feminism, 2) to provide an alternative description of these knowledge projects and identify some hermeneutical characteristics that link them and which perhaps could be the basis for delineating them as a new field of knowledge, 3) to map out the trajectory of building new religion-based feminist knowledge in Egypt, shedding light on light on current knowledge projects that can be labelled as Islamic feminism.

scholarly journals Promoting Equity, Social Justice, and Saving Lives with Life Jacket and Clothing Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Beale-Tawfeeq ◽  
Linda Quan ◽  
Elizabeth Bennett ◽  
Roy Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minorities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Equity And Inclusion ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Worldwide, diverse racial/ethnic groups have disproportionately higher drowning rates. Learning to swim and wearing life jackets decrease drowning risk. We evaluated aquatic facilities’ policies regarding use of life jackets, clothing, and diapers through a lens of social justice, equity, and inclusion to ensure they met the needs of the diverse high-risk groups they serve and changing aquatic activities and programs. Public recreational pools, beach and waterpark facilities in the US and international organizations were surveyed regarding their policies on life jacket use, clothing, and diapers between 2015 and 2016. A total of 562 facilities responded, mostly pools. Almost all facilities allowed wearing life jackets in the shallow end but less so in the deep end, and wearing of T-shirts, shorts, and clothes for modesty reasons. Policies varied most on wearing non-swim clothes. Almost universal requirement of diapers applied to infants only. Respondents’ reported themes included cost, access, safety, hygiene and equipment maintenance. Reviewed policies generally reflected facilities’ responsiveness to diverse populations’ specific needs. However, policy variations around wearing clothing and swim diapers could be costly, confusing, and impede participation in aquatic activities by vulnerable populations, specifically young children and racial and ethnic minorities. Standardization of these policies could assist aquatic facilities and their users. A best-practices-based policy is outlined.

Being Muslim

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
American Islam

Being U.S. Muslims: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam offers a previously untold story of Islam in the United States that foregrounds the voices, experiences, and images of women of color in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present. Until the late 1960s, the majority of Muslim women in the U.S.—as well as almost all U.S. Muslim women who appeared in the American press or popular culture, were African American. Thus, the book contends that the lives and labors of African American Muslim women have—and continue to—forcefully shaped the meanings and presence of American Islam, and are critical to approaching issues confronting Muslim women in the contemporary U.S. At the heart of U.S. Muslim women’s encounters with Islam, the volume demonstrates, is a desire for gender justice that is rooted in how issues of race and religion have shaped women’s daily lives. Women of color’s ways of “being U.S. Muslims” have been consistently forged against commonsense notions of racial, gendered, and religious belonging and citizenship. From narratives of African American women who engage Islam as a form of social protest, through intersections of “Islam” and “feminism” in the media, and into contemporary expressions of racial and gender justice in U.S. Muslim communities, Being U.S. Muslims demonstrates that it is this continual againstness— which the book names affective insurgency—that is the central hall marks of U.S. Muslim women’s lives.

scholarly journals Pratfalls, Pitfalls, and Passion: The Melding of Leadership and Social Justice

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donnette J Noble
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

<p>Frequent conflicts over money, land, power, and other resources make it difficult for some societies to find or sustain any sense of equilibrium. Additionally, racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, educational, and political injustices, among others, require that leaders increase their understanding and commitment to social justice. Such efforts are critical in light of the vastly disparate opinions and increasingly polarized positions at the heart of contentious relationships that exist among people. This paper explores the origins of social justice, discusses the definition and perceptions of social justice, introduces the relationship between social justice and leadership, addresses current social and environmental conditions, presents c n terms of addressing social justice, and offers implications for socially just leadership.</p><p>           </p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Heuristic Understanding as a Component of Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Social Justice Advocacy Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Bauman ◽  
Michele Acker-Hocevar ◽  
Danny Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
First Generation College ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This article describes the experiences of three university colleagues with a common interest in, and commitment to, the retention of students from traditionally underserved populations including those who are racial/ethnic minorities or first-generation college. Using Moustaka’s (1990) phases of heuristic understanding as an organizational framework, we discuss our use of autoethnography to arrive at new understandings of ourselves as researchers and our area of inquiry. Consistent with social justice advocacy research, this research collaboration has the potential to inform efforts to empower traditionally underserved college students and to facilitate transformational change in an institution of higher education.

Hijabis as Purveyors of Muslim Cosmopolitanism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairudin Aljunied
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Asian Community

This chapter argues that women have contributed extensively to the promotion of gender cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia. It showcases hijab activists as well as female intellectuals and their interrogation of the excesses of Western feminism. These women have questioned the insularity of a segment of the Southeast Asian community and have courageously campaigned for their inclusion in workplaces that are prejudiced against women who wear headscarves. In campaigning for the hijab and presenting the modesty of Muslim women in innovative ways and styles, these women have revolutionised the concept of modesty in modern societies while reformulating commonplace understandings of gender justice in Muslim Southeast Asia.

Barefoot Feminist Classes

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Rula Quawas
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
University Of Jordan ◽  
The University

This chapter is told through the narrative voice of the late Rula Quawas, a professor of literature and feminist theory at the University of Jordan. She discusses how her teaching experience led her to see education as a weapon within discourses of social justice and cultural transformation. The chapter includes poems written by her students expressing their feminism as Muslim women resisting the patriarchal structures of Jordanian society.

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