Category talk:Muslim feminists
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Why is the need for religion? Do we have a "Category:Christian feminists"? Why should we be separating people by religion? How do we know their inner world? Why do we need to make this classification? E4024 (talk) 03:17, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- Neutral comment: We don't have Category:Christian feminists but we do have Category:Jewish feminists and Category:Buddhist feminists. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:24, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
- I think it is useful to identify women who take a feminist stance in regard to their religion of birth (or adoption). This would be parallel to categories that identify people by their stance on a belief system, such as Creationists or Rationalists. These categories are useful to readers who are looking for representatives of the belief system. (The category "Christian feminists" has value, and would include Mary Daly, among others.) The problem, however, is that the same category, "Muslim feminists," also applies to feminists who are born Muslim but either don't practice the religion or whose feminism is expressed for entirely secular goals. The same is true for feminists born into other traditions. Perhaps the category page could include a description at the top stating that it should include only women who take a feminist stance in regard to their religion of birth (or adoption). Downtowngal (talk) 20:23, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- stale discussion. @Downtowngal@Themightyquill: the nominated category fits well into the parent Category:Feminists by religion (although scarcely populated). Closest enwiki entry is en:List of Muslim feminists, which also explains the content of the list Estopedist1 (talk) 19:20, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
- I think it is useful to identify women who take a feminist stance in regard to their religion of birth (or adoption). This would be parallel to categories that identify people by their stance on a belief system, such as Creationists or Rationalists. These categories are useful to readers who are looking for representatives of the belief system. (The category "Christian feminists" has value, and would include Mary Daly, among others.) The problem, however, is that the same category, "Muslim feminists," also applies to feminists who are born Muslim but either don't practice the religion or whose feminism is expressed for entirely secular goals. The same is true for feminists born into other traditions. Perhaps the category page could include a description at the top stating that it should include only women who take a feminist stance in regard to their religion of birth (or adoption). Downtowngal (talk) 20:23, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Seems to fit the category tree. -- Themightyquill (talk) 11:27, 10 December 2021 (UTC)