Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.
Автор: Andall, Jacqueline Название: Gender, Migration and Domestic Service ISBN: 0754610888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754610885 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
In 1902 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)petitioned the Japanese government to stop rewarding good deeds withthe bestowal of sake cups. Alcohol production and consumption, itsmembers argued, harmed individuals, endangered public welfare, andwasted vital resources. This campaign was part of a wide-ranging reformprogram to eliminate prostitution, eradicate drinking, spreadChristianity, and improve the lives of women. As Elizabeth Dorn Lublinshows, members did not passively accept and propagate government policybut felt a duty to shape it by defining social problems and influencingopinion. Certain their beliefs and reforms were essential toJapan's advancement, members couched their calls for change in therhetorical language of national progress. Ultimately, the WCTU’sactivism belies received notions of women’s public involvementand political engagement in Meiji Japan.
In 1902 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)petitioned the Japanese government to stop rewarding good deeds withthe bestowal of sake cups. Alcohol production and consumption, itsmembers argued, harmed individuals, endangered public welfare, andwasted vital resources. This campaign was part of a wide-ranging reformprogram to eliminate prostitution, eradicate drinking, spreadChristianity, and improve the lives of women. As Elizabeth Dorn Lublinshows, members did not passively accept and propagate government policybut felt a duty to shape it by defining social problems and influencingopinion. Certain their beliefs and reforms were essential toJapan's advancement, members couched their calls for change in therhetorical language of national progress. Ultimately, the WCTU’sactivism belies received notions of women’s public involvementand political engagement in Meiji Japan.
Автор: Gregson, Nicky Название: Servicing the Middle Classes ISBN: 0415085314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415085311 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Gregson, Nicky Название: Servicing the Middle Classes ISBN: 0415085306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415085304 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.
Автор: Donner, Henrike Название: Domestic Goddesses ISBN: 0754649423 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754649427 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Andall, Jacqueline Название: Gender, Migration and Domestic Service ISBN: 0367604957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367604950 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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