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”Varför tar man för givet att feminismen måste vara sekulär?”: En studie om muslimska feminister i svensk kontext
Dalarna University, School of Humanities and Media Studies, Religious Studies.
2014 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to examine how two Muslim feminists perceive themselves to betreated by the Swedish majority society and within the secular feminist movement. Thesurvey was conducted using qualitative method with a total of two interviews. For the study'stheoretical perspectives, I have used postcolonialism and postcolonial feminism. The result ofthe survey and the analysis show that the informants say that they face an image of Muslimwomen as considered being under oppression. The informants believe that this stereotypicalimage has its origin from the colonial period. The question that is most important for themwithin feminism is to be treated as a feminist and as a Muslim without being questioned. Theyfeel like it's hard to identify with the Swedish secular feminism, but they also feel that thegroup of Swedish secular feminists have a difficulty identifying themselves with Muslimwomen too. Consider this, one of the informants does not feel welcome among Swedishsecular feminism while the other one never had an interest in becoming a member of itbecause she did not consider them to strive for the same goal as herself. The informantsclaims that there are opportunities for them to speak in the public debate, but as Muslimfeminists they are facing a bigger struggle.

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2014.
Keywords [en]
Islam, Islamic feminism, orientalism, postcolonialism, postcolonial feminism, western secular feminism
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Religious Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-16876OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-16876DiVA, id: diva2:788307
Available from: 2015-02-13 Created: 2015-02-13 Last updated: 2015-02-23Bibliographically approved

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