| Description |
vii, 311 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Herbert L. Bodman -- Gender and religion in Hausaland: variations in Islamic practice in Niger and Nigeria / Barbara M. Cooper -- When modernity confronts traditional practices: female genital cutting in Northeast Africa / Noor J. Kassamali -- Cultural diversity within Islam: veils and laws in Tunisia / M.M. Charrad -- Power, ideology, and women's consciousness in postrevolutionary Iran / Hisae Nakanishi -- Persisting contradictions: Muslim women in Syria |
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/ Bouthaina Shaaban -- From two states to one: women's lives in the transformation of Yemen / Linda Boxberger --"Guardians of the nation": women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi -- Between Lenin and Allah: women and ideology in Tajikistan / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh -- Kazak women: living the heritage of a unique past / Paula A. Michaels -- Taslima Nasreen and others: the contest over gender in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi -- |
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Urban Minangkabau Muslim women: modern choices, traditional concerns in Indonesia / Lucy A. Whalley -- Muslim women in India: a minority within a minority / Shahida Lateef -- The issues at hand / Nayereh Tohidi. |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Women in Islam.
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Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Bodman, Herbert L.
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Tawḥīdī, Nayyirah.
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| ISBN |
1555875580 alkaline paper |
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1555875785 paperback alkaline paper |
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