On shifting ground
Subtitle: Muslim women in the global era
By: edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.
Contributors: Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Muslim women -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Muslim women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Feminism -- Arab countries; Women in popular culture -- Arab countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The satellite, the prince, and Scheherazade : women as communicators in digital Islam / Fatema Mernissi; title: On and off camera in Egyptian soap operas : women, television, and the public sphere / Lila Abu-Lughod; title: Singing a new song : bonding and breaking with the past / Sherifa Zuhur; title: Wings of freedom : Iranian women, identity, and cyberspace / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone; title: The challenge of globalization in Saudi Arabia / Mai Yamani; title: Globalizing equality : Muslim women, theology, and feminism / Asma Barlas; title: The veil debate; title: again : a view from America in the early twenty-first century / Leila Ahmed; title: Feminist theory, agency, and the liberatory subject / Saba Mahmood; title: Between religion and secularism : Islamist women of Hamas / Islah Jad; title: The prospects for democracy : women reformists in the Iranian parliament / Elaheh Koolaee; title: Standing on shifting ground : women and civil society in Iran / Mehrangiz Kar; title: Sisters in Islam and the struggle for women's rights / Zainah Anwar; title: Women and the dynamics of transnational networks / Meena Sharify-Funk; title: Shirin Ebadi : a perspective on women's rights in the context of human rights / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.