Geographies of Muslim Women
Subtitle: Gender, Religion, and Space
Contributors: Ghazi-Walid Falah (Editor); Caroline Nagel (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: March 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781572301344
Subjects: Geography; Sociology; Legal status, laws, etc; Muslims; Sociology Of Women; Women; Social Science; Science; Muslim women; Islam - General; Women's Studies - General; Science / Geography; Human Geography; Islamic countries; Legal status, laws, etc
First sentence: In January 2004 thousands of Muslim women took to the streets in Cairo, Tehran, Gaza, Amman, and Beirut to protest efforts by French authorities to ban the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, in state schools and other public institutions.