Refusing holy orders
Subtitle: women and fundamentalism in Britain
By: edited by Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis.
Contributors: Sahgal, Gita.; Yuval-Davis, Nira.
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Women and religion -- Great Britain.; Feminism -- Religious aspects.; Religious fundamentalism -- Comparative studies.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Fundamentalism, multiculturalism, and women in Britain / Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis; title: Biblicism, a radical rhetoric? / Sara Maitland; title: Women and the inverted pyramid of the Black churches in Britain / Elaine Foster; title: 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea' : Irish women, catholicism and colonialism / Ann Rossiter; title: Muslim women and the politics of ethnicity and culture in Northern England / Yasmin Ali; title: Education and the Muslim girl / Saeeda Khanum; title: Double exile : Iranian women and Islamic fundamentalism / Maryam Poya; title: Secular spaces : the experience of Asian women organizing / Gita Sahgal; title: Jewish fundamentalism and women's empowerment / Nira Yuval-Davis.