Geographies of Muslim Women
Subtitle: Gender, Religion, and Space
Contributors: Ghazi-Walid Falah (Editor); Caroline Nagel (Editor)
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: May 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781593851835
Subjects: Geography; Women's studies; Sociology Of Women; Legal status, laws, etc.; Muslims; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology; Muslim women; Islam - General; Science / Geography; Human Geography; Women; 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 ban the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, in state schools and other public institutions.