Overview
- Offers an analysis of the interlinked factors that motivate, provide opportunities for and ultimately limit Muslim women’s political participation
- Addresses a distinct lack of Muslim women's voices in much of the Francophone European political arena
- Provides a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of Muslim women
Part of the book series: New Directions in Islam (NDI)
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This book outlines the principal motivations, opportunities and barriers to Muslim women’s political participation in France and francophone Belgium.
Easat-Daas draws on in-depth comparative contextual analysis along with semi-structured interview material with women from France and Belgium who self-identify as Muslim and are active in a variety of modes of political participation, such European Parliamentarians, Senators, councilwomen, trade-union activists and those engaged in grass-roots political movements. This provides an alternative framing of Muslim women, removed from the tired and often exaggerated stereotypes that portray them as passive objects or sources of threat, instead highlighting their remarkable resilience and consistent determination.
Through exploring the intersecting fault lines of racial, Islamophobic and gendered struggles of Muslim women in these two cases, this book also sheds new light on the role of ‘European Islam’, political opportunity structures, secularism and Muslim women’s dress.
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Amina Easat-Daas is an Early Career Academic Fellow in the Department of Politics, People and Place at De Montfort University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Women’s Political Participation in France and Belgium
Authors: Amina Easat-Daas
Series Title: New Directions in Islam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48725-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48724-9Published: 04 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48727-0Published: 04 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48725-6Published: 03 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2991
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Ethnicity Studies, Islam, Religion and Gender, European Politics