Islam and Feminisms
Subtitle: An Iranian Case-Study (Women's Studies at York)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312222208
Subjects: Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Islam - General; Religion; 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).