Abstract
This systematic literature review on Druze women and gender in Druze society reviews central conceptual themes from existing publications to chart future research trajectories. Using a meta-ethnographic methodology, this literature review covers Druze women’s experience of gendered realities in higher education, economic participation, marriage, family life, and health. Our systematic literature review allows us to offer two propositions on existing published knowledge pertaining to Druze women and gender in Druze society. First, we propose that scholarship on Druze women and gender in Druze society constructs Druze women’s experience of gender as not only discursive but material. We incorporate the process of women’s relationship with prohibitive mechanisms of gendered space and men’s experience of masculinist subjectification into an existing term: the spatialization of everyday life. Second, quantitative analysis reveals a disparity in publications between Israel and other countries such as Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. We propose that this disparity relates to the concept of “Druze particularism” while emphasizing their difference vis-à-vis Islamic religion and Arab culture. We suggest that future research thoroughly covers other national contexts and inter-national comparisons of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the diaspora, especially in education, economy, and health. Future research trajectories could include examining contemporary sociolegal research on the legal regime that governs family life, research on Druze men from an explicitly feminist perspective, or publications of influential Druze women.
Highlights
The Druze emerged from Isma’ili Islam at the beginning of the 11th Century FatimidEgypt (Halabi 2013, p. 16)
The final step was reading the full articles and making the determination to include only publications that fit the topic. This resulted in 56 entries that directly focused on women and gender among the Druze or used the Druze in a comparative study
We suggested that scholarship on Druze women and gender in
Summary
The Druze emerged from Isma’ili Islam at the beginning of the 11th Century FatimidEgypt (Halabi 2013, p. 16). The Druze emerged from Isma’ili Islam at the beginning of the 11th Century Fatimid. Most Druze communities are located in the Middle. Estimates of the number of Druze vary and include above 1 million people. The largest communities are in Syria and Lebanon, with about 6% and 7% of the population, respectively. Smaller communities are in Israel and Jordan, with about 1% of the population of both countries
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