Creating a Critical Faith-Centered Space for Antiracist Feminism: Reflections of a Muslim Scholar-Activist

In this epigraph, Marnia Lazreg writes about the tribulations of writing as an Algerian woman about women in Algeria.' The idea of being able to com municate "another mode of being female" within feminist discourses is indeed a difficult task, because the legitimate articulations of the category of "female" have been discursively drawn and mapped in ways that privilege a particular construction of womanhood based on Western, liberal, secular notions.2 As M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty note, "There is a conver gence between the way gender emerged as a primary category of analysis and the social, demographic, and class composition of those who actually theorized