Sexuality and Gender

Zain Abdullah, “Narrating Muslim Masculinities: The Fruit of Islam and the Quest for Black Redemption”, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 1/1 (2012, pp. 141-177

Erin Augis, Aïcha’s Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and Resistance in Dakar”, Islamic Africa, 5/2 (Fall 2014), pp. 199-224

Aaliyah Bilal, “The Million-Man March: A Black Muslim Feminist Response” https://medium.com/ummah-wide/the-million-man-march-a-black-muslim-feminist-response-5a77793684b9#.3dxzupdqu

Britta Frede and Joseph Hill, “Introduction: En-gendering Islamic Authority in West Africa”, Islamic Africa, 5/2 (2014), pp. 131-165

Rudolf Pell Gaudio, Allah Made Us: Sex Outlaws in an Islamic African City (2009)

Sondra Hale, Gender Politics in Sudan:  Islamism, Socialism, and the State (Westview Press, 1997)

Joseph Hill “‘All Women are Guides’: Sufi Leadership and Womanhood among Taalibe Baay in Senegal”, Journal of Religion in Africa, 40/4 (2010), pp. 375-412

Joseph Hill, “Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal”, Islamic Africa, 5/2 (Fall 2014), pp. 275-315

Susan F. Hirsch, Pronouncing and Preserving: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court (1998)

Alaine S. Hutson, “Women, Men, and Patriarchal Bargaining in an Islamic Sufi Order: The Tijaniyya in Kano, Nigeria, 1937 to the Present”, Gender and Society, 15/5 (2001), pp. 734-753

Afdhere Jama, Being Queer and Somali: LGBT Somalis at Home and Abroad (2015)

Azmat Khan and Amina Waheed, “Meet America’s First Openly Gay Imam” http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/12/20/meet-america-s-firstopenlygayimam.html

Jeffrey B. Leak, “Malcolm X and Black Masculinity in Process”, in Robert. E. Terrill, Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X (2010), pp. 51-62

Ebenezer Obadare, “Sex, Citizenship and the State in Nigeria: Islam, Christianity and Emergent Struggles Over Intimacy”, Review of African Political Economy, 42/143 (2015), pp. 62-76

Pamela Prickett,  “Negotiating Gendered Religious Space: The Particularities of Patriarchy in an African AMerican Mosque”, Gender & Society, 29/1 (2015), pp. 51-72

Kathryn A. Rhine, “She Lives Dangerously: Intimate Ethics, Grammatical Personhood, and HIV/AIDS in Islamic Northern Nigeria”, Africa Today, 61/4 (2015), pp. 84-103

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, “Are We Up to the Challenge? The Need for a Radical Reordering of the Islamic Discourse on Women” in Omid Safi (ed.), Progressive Muslims; On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (2006)

Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson (eds.), Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast (2015)

Katrina Daly Thompson, “How to be a Good Muslim Wife: Women’s Performance of Islamic Authority during Swahili Weddings”, Journal of Religion in Africa, 41/4 (2011), pp. 427-448

Richard Brent Turner, “Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African-American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslims in America”, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 8/4 (2006), pp. 31-44

Amina Wadud-Muhsin, “On Belonging as a Muslim Woman” in Gloria Wade-Gayles (ed.), My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality (2002) pp. 253-265

Amina Wadud, Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective, 2nd ed. (1999)