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      Working against many grains: Rethinking difference, emancipation and agency in the counter-discourse of an ethnic minority women’s organisation in Belgium

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          In this article, we aim to contribute to feminist academic debates about multiculturalism and secularism/religion by drawing upon an analysis of an ethnic minority women’s organisation in Belgium that has been active since 1999: ella. The analysis focuses upon the way in which ella constructs notions of empowerment and emancipation by discussing structural inequalities, cultural-ethnic values and religious authority and identity. First, we look at how ella formulates its ideas about the emancipation trajectories of minoritised women and the potential role of religious belonging. Second, we look at ella’s discussion of religious interpretation and gender/sexual diversity. Here, we explore assumptions about the relationship between religious authority and minoritised women’s and LGBTQs’ desires and pursuit for knowledge. We conclude by considering ella as an affirmative-critical actor of multiculturalism, and an implicit agent of religious reform.

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          Cet article vise à contribuer aux débats académiques féministes relatifs à la diversité culturelle et au rapport laïcité/religion par l’analyse d’une organisation de femmes de minorité ethnique en Belgique, connue sous le nom d’ella. Cette analyse se concentre sur la manière dont ella développe des notions de responsabilisation et d’émancipation en discutant des inégalités structurelles, des valeurs ethniques et culturelles ainsi que de l’autorité et de l’identité religieuse. Dans un premier temps, nous examinons comment ella formule ses idées sur les trajectoires d’émancipation des femmes mises en minorité et du rôle potentiel de leur appartenance religieuse. Dans un deuxième temps, nous analysons la manière dont ella envisage l’interprétation religieuse et la diversité des genres/diversité sexuelle. Nous concluons en considérant ella comme un acteur critique et affirmé du multiculturalisme et un agent implicite de la réforme religieuse.

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                Journal
                Soc Compass
                Soc Compass
                SCP
                spscp
                Social Compass
                SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                0037-7686
                1461-7404
                05 October 2017
                December 2017
                : 64
                : 4
                : 512-529
                Affiliations
                [1-0037768617727486]Utrecht University, The Netherlands
                [2-0037768617727486]Ghent University, Belgium
                Author notes
                [*]Nella van den Brandt, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13a, 3512BL, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Email: h.p.vandenbrandt@ 123456uu.nl
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                10.1177_0037768617727486
                10.1177/0037768617727486
                6195254
                51902a51-ddad-48b3-bb7c-a8cd9fb41568
                © The Author(s) 2017

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Thematic issue: Is secularism bad for women?: La laïcité nuit-elle aux femmes?
                Coordinateurs / Guest Editors : Kristin AUNE, Mia Lövheim, Alberta GIORGI, Teresa TOLDY and Terhi UTRIAINEN

                agency,difference,emancipation,ethnic minority women’s organisation,multiculturalism,religion,agentivité,différence,émancipation,ethnique,multiculturalisme,organisation des femmes de minorité

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