Gender, politics, and Islam
By: edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard.
Contributors: Saliba, Therese.; Allen, Carolyn; Howard, Judith A.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Muslim Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions; Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Political activity; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Women in Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Islamic feminism and its discontents: towards a resolution of the debate / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: The politics of feminism in Islam / Anouar Majid; title: The power paradox in Muslim women's Majales: North-West Pakistani mourning rituals as sites of contestation over religions politics, ethnicity, and gender / Mary Elaine Hegland; title: Icons and militants: mothering in the danger zone / Julie Peteet; title: Elusive bodies: the politics of aesthetics among Yemeni elite women / Gabriele von Bruck; title: Contesting the illicit: gender and the politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin; title: Women in the era of modernity and Islamic fundamentalism: the case of Taslima Nasrin of Bangladesh / S.M. Shamsul Alam; title: Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh; title: Muslim women: negotiations in the third space / Shahnaz Khan.