Presentation: Druze Women and Gender in Druze Society

This presentation represents my submission to the University of Kansas' 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium. The event began on April 24th at 8am on April 24th and will conclude on April 30th. Feel free to explore my submission at the website's address. This systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society not only provides existing researchers with centralized access to publications on the topic but points out future trajectories for research while consolidating conceptual innovations into overarching concepts. Its meta-ethnographic methodology seeks to address the question of Druze women’s experience of gender as presented in the literature and national disparities between publications on the topic. Too often, gender as a concept is written off as irrelevant, and even when it is taken seriously, it is done so through insufficient analyses. Synthesizing the conceptual specificities of Druze women’s experience reveals the limits of universalist Western feminist frameworks of analysis while providing a holistic feminist anthropological account of the Druze.