| Description |
xxxvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Women and religion in the world. |
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Women and religion in the world.
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| Summary |
A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world. |
| Contents |
Law and Iranian women's activism / Louise A. Halper -- Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism / Rachel Newcomb -- Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists / Narzanin Massoumi -- In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics / Azza Basarudin -- Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad / Roxanne D. Marcotte -- New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women / Khanum Shaikh -- "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system / Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani -- Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings / Nelly Van Doorn-Harder -- The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood / Kahani Beguum -- Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe / Kari Vogt -- From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California / Bridget Blomfield -- Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada / Katherine Bullock. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women in Islam.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Kassam, Zayn.
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| ISBN |
9780275991586 hardcover : copy alkaline paper |
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027599158X hardcover : copy alkaline paper |
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