Making Muslim women European : voluntary associations, gender, and Islam in post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia (1878-1941) / Fabio Giomi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giomi, Fabio, author.

Series:

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 13.

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; volume XIII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Muslim women--Yugoslavia--Social conditions.

Women--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Societies and clubs--History.

Women.

Women--Yugoslavia--Societies and clubs--History.

Women--Europe--Social conditions.

History.

Social conditions.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization.

Civilization.

Muslim women--Social conditions.

Women--Social conditions.

Women--Societies and clubs.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Yugoslavia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 401 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state "unveiled" and "iberated" them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing : How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of "New Muslim Women" able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today's challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 At the Margins of the Habsburg Civilizing Mission

ch. 2 Domesticating the Muslim Woman Question

ch. 3 Muslim, Female and Volunteer

ch. 4 Calling for Change

ch. 5 Putting Change into Practice

ch. 6 A Taste for Celebration

ch. 7 Unforeseen Consequences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Giomi, Fabio. Making Muslim women European

ISBN:

9789633863695

9633863694

OCLC:

1140681674