Abstract

SALEM, Sara. Islamic Feminism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2014, n.21, pp.186-193. ISSN 1794-2489.

This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global structures that produce and reproduce the relations of inequality that affect muslim women, a decolonial intersectional approach can take the expanding field of Islamic feminism even further.

Keywords : Islamic feminism; decoloniality; intersectionality; feminism; gender.

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