Freiheit durch Pflicht. Femininer Islamismus als Irritation für feministische politische Theorie

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Schlüsselwörter: Saba Mahmood, Handlungsmacht, Freiheit, Judith Butler, Heba Raouf Ezzat

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Liberty through Political Obligation.

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Taking the overwhelming female support of Islamist movements in some places as its point of departure, the article investigates the concept of  liberty underlying such movements. Drawing upon Judith Butler, in the first part the reconceptualization of (positive) liberty Saba Mahmood suggested vis-à-vis the Women’s Mosque Movement in Cairo is analyzed, with the  link Mahmood establishes between a subject’s agency and liberty questioned. Following, the concept of liberty underlying the works of Heba  Raouf Ezzat, a leading “Islamist feminist”, is analyzed. It is argued that Saba Mahmood’s reconceptualization of liberty necessarily falters when trying to grasp the concept of liberty revealed in Ezzat’s works. In the last part, a new reading of Judith Butler’s concept of liberty based on her critique of normative violence is suggested.

Keywords: Saba Mahmood, agency, liberty, Judith Butler, Heba Raouf Ezzat

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Bibliographie: Sinder, Rike: Freiheit durch Pflicht. Femininer Islamismus als Irritation für feministische politische Theorie, PERIPHERIE, 2-2014, S. 288-309. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v34i134-135.22449