Revue Nouvelles Questions Féministes (NQF), 38/1 (Web): Coordination: Irene Becci, Helene Fueger, Catherine Fussinger and Amel Mahfoud

Time: 28th of November 2017
Venue: University of Lausanne
Proposals due: 03.04.2017

Denounced as fundamentally oppressive systems for women, monotheistic religions have been the subject of strong criticism from feminist movements in the West. The traditions most targeted by these criticisms were first those from which most Western feminists had come from, namely Christianity and Judaism (especially in North America). As for the theme of Islam and feminism, it is a particularly complex question today because the issue of the place of women within Islam was very quickly instrumentalized in the colonial context.

If the three monotheistic traditions have been criticized for promoting social organization and discriminatory values against women in civil society, their internal functioning has also been called into question (difficulty or even impossibility for women to occupy positions of authority within religious institutions, but also to access texts and places of worship, as well as certain rites). Read more and source … (Web)