The manifesto of the Al-Khanssaa Brigade on the role of women in the new Islamic Caliphate: a challenge to feminism and gender equality in the Arab world

In January 2015, al-Khansaa Brigade –female section of the self-styled Islamic State– went a step further in his hitherto functions of propaganda, recruitment and moral police to disseminate a manifesto detailing the role of women in the new caliphate. The analysis of this document reveals the renew...

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Main Author: Olga Torres
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2015-12-01
Series:Feminismo/s
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Online Access:https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2015-n26-el-manifiesto-de-la-brigada-al-jansa-sobre-el-papel-de-la-mujer-en-el-nuevo-califato-islamico-un-desafio-al-feminismo-y-la-igualdad-de-genero-en-el-mundo-arabe
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Summary:In January 2015, al-Khansaa Brigade –female section of the self-styled Islamic State– went a step further in his hitherto functions of propaganda, recruitment and moral police to disseminate a manifesto detailing the role of women in the new caliphate. The analysis of this document reveals the renewed challenge gender equality is facing in the Arab world before Islamic rigorism, as well as some similarities with other manifestations of the same fundamentalist and antifeminist tenor in non Arab Islamic environments.
ISSN:1696-8166
1989-9998