Gender and Islam in Africa
Subtitle: rights, sexuality, and law
By: edited by Margot Badran
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780804774819
Subjects: Muslim women; Islam; Political activity; Feminism; Women in Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muslim women's knowledge production in the greater Maghreb: the example of Nana Asmaʼu of Northern Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack; title: Rethinking marginality and agency in postcolonial Niger: a social biography of a Sufi woman scholar / Ousseina D. Alidou; title: Deconstructing Islamic feminism: a look at Fatima Mernissi / Raja Rhouni; title: Embodied tafsir: South African Muslim women confront gender violence in marriage / Saʼdiyyah Shaikh; title: Changing conceptions of moral womanhood in Somali popular songs, 1960-1990 / Lidwien Kapteijns; title: Guidelines for the ideal mu slim woman: gender ideology and practice in the Tabligh Jamaʻat in the Gambia / Marloes Janson; title: Titanic in Kano: video, gender, and Islam / Heike Behrend; title: Shariʻa activism and Zina in Nigeria in the era of hudud / Margot Badran; title: Women and men put Islamic law to their own use: monogamy versus secret marriage in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier; title: Islam, gender, and democracy in Morocco: the making of the mudawana reform / Julie E. Pruzan-Jørgensen; title: Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes / Benjamin F. Soares; title: Legal recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa / Rashida Manjoo.