Post-feminism and post-colonialism in Europe: the case of Muslim women’s activism in the European public sphere

This paper aims at addressing the challenges posed to contemporary feminist theories by the emergence, on the European public sphere, of new expressions of women’s social agency which consider religion a space of freedom, instead of a source of subjugation as usually stated by Western feminists. The analysis of transnational Islamic feminist movements active in Europe may offer an interesting case-study of the multiple trajectories followed by women in search of recognition and respect and an opportunity to reposition our eyes and dismiss those ethnocentric habits which sometimes affected feminist debate.