Browsing Department of Gender Studies Graduate Theses by Subject "Islam"

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Debating 'Islamic Feminism': Between Turkish Secular Feminist and North American Academic Critiques

Tomac, Ayca (2011-09-20)

This project questions western hegemonic discourse about the non-western Other, specifically the Muslim woman subject, through a post-colonial critical point of view. It takes the debate on Islamic feminism, especially in ...
Women's Citizenship: Between Bloodlines and Patriarchal Conditioning in Postcolonial Algeria

Djerbal, Yasmine (2014-01-30)

My thesis maps a genealogy of patriarchal structures that underpin Algerian history, culture, and institutions between the war of independence and the 1991-2001 civil war. More specifically, I contextualize the ways in ...