Scholar and Feminist Online: 9.3
Summer 2011

Religion and the Body

Dominic Wetzel

Contributors include Kaucyila Brooke, Ann Burlein, Lindsay Caplan, Janet R. Jakobsen, Ins Kromminga, Laura Levitt, Minoo Moallem, Carlo Quispe, Catherine Sameh, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Saadia Toor, Dominic Wetzel, Melissa Wilcox, Paul Wirhun, and David Wojnarowicz.

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activism, arts, Christianity, gender, islam, judaism, queer, religion, sexuality

Saba Mahmood: The Politics of Freedom

Full-length video of the lecture "The Politics of Freedom: Geopolitics, Minority Rights and Gender."

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Christianity, gender, islam, policy, politics, religion, transnational

James Room
Nov 5, 2009 | 6:30PM

Should Religious Ethics Matter to Feminist Politics?

Saba Mahmood

Established in 2004 in honor of Barnard alumna Helen Pond McIntyre ’48, the McIntyre lectureship highlights the work of scholars who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of Women’s Studies. In past years, the lecture series has welcomed numerous feminist icons, including legal scholar Patricia Williams; human rights advocate Dorothy Q. Thomas; feminist science […]

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Christianity, gender, islam, policy, politics, religion, transnational

2009
Oct 5, 2009

Saba Mahmood: The Politics of Freedom

Recorded Oct 5, 2009

Introduced by Janet Jakobsen, Saba Mahmood delivered the lecture, "The Politics of Freedom: Geopolitics, Minority Rights and Gender" on October 5, 2009 at Barnard College. Originally titled "Should Feminist Ethics Matter to Religious Politics?" Mahmood's talk marked the sixth annual Helen Pond McIntyre '48 lecture. Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Mahmood is an expert on issues of secularism, gender, and modernity within the context of Islamist movements in the Middle East and South Asia. In this lecture, she reflects on why ethical practice and forms of embodiment matter to questions of feminist politics and analysis. By engaging some common misreadings of her 2005 book Politics of Piety, Mahmood urges feminist scholars to critically re-think the normative status accorded to secular conceptions of the self and body in contemporary debates about religion.

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Christianity, gender, islam, policy, politics, religion, transnational