RT Article
T1 Druze Women and Gender in Druze Society: A Systematic Literature Review
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 12
A1 Zeedan, Rami
A1 Luce, Miles
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1796464422
AB This systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society reviews central conceptual themes from existing publications to chart future research trajectories. Using a meta-ethnographic methodology, this literature review covers Druze women’s experience of gendered realities in higher education, economic participation, marriage, family life, and health. Our systematic literature review allows us to offer two propositions on existing published knowledge pertaining to Druze women and gender in Druze society. First, we propose that scholarship on Druze women and gender in Druze society constructs Druze women’s experience of gender as not only discursive but material. We incorporate the process of women’s relationship with prohibitive mechanisms of gendered space and men’s experience of masculinist subjectification into an existing term: the spatialization of everyday life. Second, quantitative analysis reveals a disparity in publications between Israel and other countries such as Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. We propose that this disparity relates to the concept of "Druze particularism" while emphasizing their difference vis-à-vis Islamic religion and Arab culture. We suggest that future research thoroughly covers other national contexts and inter-national comparisons of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the diaspora, especially in education, economy, and health. Future research trajectories could include examining contemporary sociolegal research on the legal regime that governs family life, research on Druze men from an explicitly feminist perspective, or publications of influential Druze women.
K1 Arab
K1 Druze
K1 Israel
K1 Lebanon
K1 Muslim
K1 Syria
K1 Feminism
K1 Gender
K1 Women
DO 10.3390/rel12121111