Is a Woman’s Voice ‘Awra?: Gendered Muslim Voices in Twentieth-Century Egypt
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Yeo, Jay
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religious Studies
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- “Is a woman’s voice ‘awra?” is a question that abounds on online fatwa forums and expresses the contemporary concern surrounding the appropriateness of Muslim women’s voices relative to their bodies. This paper presents an initial foray into the historical roots of this question by examining women’s voices in twentieth-century Egypt with particular attention to the impact of audio technologies. I argue that women’s voices became a site of cultural contestation during the early and mid twentieth century, which combined with the anxieties surrounding religion in the 1970s and 1980s with rise of the “New Islam” to produce this contemporary question. I draw attention to the political stakes of Muslim women’s voices in twentieth-century Egypt, specifically, and point to the broader relevance of women’s voices across diverse contexts. Far from conclusive, this paper offers an argument that in turn poses many more questions for further historical and ethnographic investigation.
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- May 2018
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- Ernst, Carl
- Figueroa, Michael
- Hammer, Juliane
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- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 2018
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