For those readers in the D.C. area, please join us for the final Culture in Global Affairs program talk of the year.
Sharia and Gender
in the Malay-Muslim Corporate Workplace
Patricia Sloane-White, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware
This talk will explore how in Malaysia, the growing muscularity and masculinity of sharia (Islamic law) in personal and domestic settings has been reproduced as corporate policy in many Malaysian companies. What Sloane-White calls “personnel sharia” increasingly defines and regulates Muslim women’s positionality and vulnerability vis-à-vis men in the Malaysian corporate workplace, providing insight into how Malay-Muslim women’s corporate roles are being reconfigured in an increasingly sharia-ized Malaysia.
November 20 – 12 noon – 1957 E Street NW, Room 211
RSVP: ghcornwell@gmail.com
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