Islam and Feminisms
Subtitle: An Iranian Case Study (Women's Studies at York/Macmillan)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333771204
Subjects: Feminism; Islamic studies; Iran; Anthropology - Cultural; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: The widespread support given by Iranian women to Islam, and its revolutionary ardour in the 1970s, heralded what has become known as 'feminist fundamentalism' (Hoffman 1985; Ahmed 1992; Afshar 1994, 1996).