Tolino, Serena (25 May 2023). Intersectionality Matters: New Perspectives on the Study of Islamic Legal Sources (Unpublished). In: Afternoon Talks in Islamic Law. Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law - Hamburg. 25 May 2023.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Intersectionality has been at the center of many public discussions in recent years, extending well beyond feminist circles. However, the concept itself is not new: as early as 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw argued for the necessity of an analytical approach that would consider the intersecting axes of race and gender to make the discrimination faced by Black women visible. Since then, intersectionality has been expanded to include additional axes of analysis, such as for example (dis)ability, sexual orientation, class, age, and more, and has been applied by numerous scholars in Middle Eastern Studies, particularly those working on gender. However, its potential in Islamic legal sources remains under-investigated. Building on Marion Katz's work, who has shown how the category of woman in early Islamic law always intersected with other factors like age and enslavement (Katz 2014), this talk reflects on how intersectionality can enhance our conceptualization of gender in Islamic law, focusing in particular on legal discussions on slavery.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften |
UniBE Contributor: |
Tolino, Serena |
Subjects: |
200 Religion > 290 Other religions 900 History > 950 History of Asia 900 History > 960 History of Africa |
Projects: |
[UNSPECIFIED] TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources |
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English |
Submitter: |
Serena Tolino |
Date Deposited: |
26 May 2023 09:05 |
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26 May 2023 09:05 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
trajectories of slavery, intersectionality, gender, enslaved women, umm al-walad, religion, class, race |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182927 |
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