Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival

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Published 20-03-2019
Saba Mahmood

Abstract

This article was originally published by Saba Mahmood in the journal Cultural Anthropology, volume 16, number 2, in 2001 with the title: "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival". In 2008, the article was published in Spanish in a book edited by Liliana Suárez Navaz y Rosalva Aída Hérnandez Castillo in Cátedra: Descolonizando el feminismo: teorías y prácticas desde los márgenes. In the article, Saba Mahmood, who recently passed away, deals with a main debate in feminist theory: social agency. Through an analysis of the piety movement in Egypt in the 1990s and precisely of the study of five mosques in El Cairo, the author questions the consideration of social agency as a synonym of resistance to domination relations, which prevents the study of movements as the one she studies. She offers a conceptualization of agency as capacity of action that is habilitated and created inside specific historical relations of subordination.
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Keywords

women, feminism, islamic culture, traditions

Section
Fundamentals