Beyond feminism and islamism
Subtitle: gender and equality in North Africa
By: Doris H. Gray
Edition: New paperback edition.
Publisher: Distributed in the US and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781784530068
Subjects: Muslim women; Feminism; Islam
Description: "Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists--both male and female--and by situating these interviews within their socio-political and economic contexts, Doris Gray addresses these questions. By doing so, she attempts to move beyond the simple bifurcation of 'feminist' and 'Islamist' to look at the many facets of internal gender discourse within one Muslim country, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of the discussion on women's rights in the Muslim world in general. The status and the role of women is one of the most hotly debated topics throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and this is particularly visible through this discussion of what it means to engage with and promote feminist thought and actions in the region."
Notes: First publshed in hardback in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: And God created Eve...; title: Feminism and its discontents; title: A third way; title: The way forward.