Political agency in the blogging of the everyday: The case of muslim women bloggers

• Main Author: Mohamed, Shafizan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Islamic, Social, Economics and Development 2017
• Subjects: H10 Societies; H61.8 Communication of information; HM Sociology; HM706 Social structure; HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; JQ Political institutions Asia
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/60939/1/JISED-2017-06-12-12.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/60939/; http://www.jised.com/PDF/JISED-2017-06-12-12.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

This study looks at women’s religious conviction as a form of political agency that can be both resistant and submissive. The narratives of the women in this study showed that women can be political within religious submission. These women who had been conditioned by the religious and political cult...