Title Women claim Islam : creating Islamic feminism through literature / Miriam Cooke

Published New York ; London : Routledge, 2001

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W'PONDS	305.486971 Coo/Wci		AVAILABLE

Description xxix, 175 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Arab Women's Literary History -- Critical Response -- The Gulf War Story -- Gendering the Gulf War Story -- The Iraqi Version -- Migrating Stories -- 2. In Search of Mother Tongues -- Assia Djebar's Prisonhouse -- Albert Memmi's Struggles with His Mother -- Abdelkebir Khatibi's Bi-langue -- Jacques Derrida: "Le Petit Juif Francais d'Algerie" -- 3. Reviewing Beginnings -- Islamic Feminism -- Assia Djebar -- Fatima Mernissi -- Nawal El Saadawi -- 4. A Muslim Sister -- Zaynab al-Ghazali's Muslim Ladies' Association -- Survival in Hell -- Signs Taken for Wonders -- An Islamic Feminist Mission -- 5. Multiple Critique -- Critical Networking -- Imageness -- The Weight of the Veil -- 6. Changing the Subject -- Academic Politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index Subject Feminism in literature. Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Muslim women -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century. Feminism -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century. Muslim women -- Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. LC no. 00035315 ISBN 0415925533 0415925541 (paperback)

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