Initiative for Women's Studies, Nigeria.
Third World Q. 2010;31(6):921-37. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2010.502725.
This article explores the common ideological ground between Islam and Christianity in Nigeria, in the ways in which gender and sexuality are configured in relation to women's bodies. The latter constitute key sites for the inscription of social norms and practices inherent in particular interpretations of religion. We proceed by examining the interplay between religion and politics in historical context and in specific concrete instances. While the religious right among Muslims and Christians share the view that women's bodies are sexually corrupting and therefore in need of control, this perspective is also found in secular institutions. At the same time Christians and Muslims are strongly opposed to controls on women's bodies that may lead to either religious group being identified as 'the other'. The linkage made between women's bodies and 'public morality' produces diverse forms of gender inequality. The moralising of political economy that these processes entail complicates the terrain on which challenges to the politicisation of religion and its gender politics need to be sustained.
本文探讨了伊斯兰教和基督教在尼日利亚的共同思想基础，以及性别和性在与女性身体的关系中是如何被构建的。女性身体是特定宗教解释所固有的社会规范和实践的关键场所。我们通过考察历史背景和具体实例中宗教与政治之间的相互作用来进行研究。穆斯林和基督教中的宗教右翼都认为女性的身体具有性腐蚀性，因此需要加以控制，但这种观点也存在于世俗机构中。与此同时，基督教和穆斯林强烈反对可能导致任何一个宗教群体被视为“他者”的对女性身体的控制。将女性身体与“公共道德”联系起来，会产生多种形式的性别不平等。这些过程所涉及的政治经济学的道德化，使宗教政治化及其性别政治所面临的挑战的持续变得更加复杂。
