Women from Muslim Communities: Autonomy and Capacity of Action

In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 816-832

Abstract

This article examines the interaction of women from Muslim communities with British majority society, the ethnic group and the Muslim group to ascertain enabling factors and obstacles to their autonomisation. It explores how the women navigate through the tensions underpinning the three reference groups to develop their life plan in the private and public space. The empirical research included Touraine's methodology of sociological intervention.