| Description |
354 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Islam / Therese Saliba -- Islamic Feminism and its Discontents: Towards a Resolution of the Debate / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The Politics of Feminism in Islam / Anouar Majid -- The Power Paradox in Muslim Women's Majales: North-West Pakistani Mourning Rituals at Sites of Contestation over Religious Politics, Ethnicity, and Gender / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Icons and Militants: Mothering in the Danger Zone / Julie Peteet -- Elusive Bodies: The Politics of Aesthetics among Yemeni Elite Women / Gabriele von Bruck -- Contesting the Illicit: Gender and the Politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin -- Women in the Era of Modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Taslima Nasrin of Bangladesh / S. M. Shamsul Alam -- Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World / Amal Amireh -- Muslim Women: Negotiations in the Third Space / Shahnaz Khan |
| Notes |
Essays originally published 1997-2002 in the journal Signs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
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Muslim women -- Political activity -- Islamic countries.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Women in Islam.
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| Author |
Howard, Judith A., 1947 August 4-
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Allen, Carolyn, 1943-
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Saliba, Therese.
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| LC no. |
2002067318 |
| ISBN |
0226734293 paper alkaline paper |
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0226734285 cloth alkaline paper |
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