Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley.[1] She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
Biography[edit]
She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) in which she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition. Her ethnography explores the ways in which Cairene women following the mosque movement do not fit under a secular-liberal vision of feminist agency and resistance. In the vein of poststructural feminism, she does not presuppose a particular Western "resistance in the face of power" but instead evaluates how these women produce an ethic of piety, and a different formation of agency, through the process of veiling.[2]
Bibliography[edit]
- Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech. With Talal Asad, Wendy Brown and Judith Butler. Fordham University Press, 2013. (First edition published by the University of California Press, 2009).
- The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
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References[edit]
- ^ "Saba Mahmood". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ Mahmood, Saba. "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival." Cultural Anthropology 16.2 (2001), page 206.
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