Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam by Amina Wadud

Author:Amina Wadud [Wadud, Amina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Islam, General, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Islamic Studies
ISBN: 9781780744513
Google: jpucAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1851684638
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2006-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

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capability for child-bearing, is a serious overestimation on the part of too many cultures today. It stands in stark contrast to the Qur’anic statement, “lil-rijaali nasiban min-maa-ktasabu wa lil-nisaa’ nasibum min-maa- ktasabna, for men shall have a share of what they earn and women shall have a share of what they earn . . . truly Allah has knowledge of all things” (4:32).

In light of the added reality of global economics, more and more women are also burdened with the responsibility of contributing to the family income. All this severely strains the notion of the self-sufficient nuclear family unit. When a woman faces the multiple roles of parenting in the nuclear family with the presumption of sufficient wage-earning from the male, but without the extended network of support, she is already overly burdened. Next to these, working wives and mothers are doubly burdened. Yet an even more illogical reality faces the many women today who are single heads of household with no financial support, except what they are able to provide, and no structural system to alleviate the plight of their families. This leads to my notion of the new Hajar paradigm.

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