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Gender, Politics and Islam
Amal Amireh
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Description for Gender, Politics and Islam
Paperback. This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in cultural movements. Editor(s): Saliba, Therese; Allen, Carolyn; Howard, Judith A. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers essays from the journal "Signs" on women in the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and attempt to gain political, economic and legal rights. "Gender, Politics and Islam" shows Islam to be a diverse set of variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect and class, as ... Read more
This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers essays from the journal "Signs" on women in the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and attempt to gain political, economic and legal rights. "Gender, Politics and Islam" shows Islam to be a diverse set of variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect and class, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226734293
SKU
V9780226734293
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About Amal Amireh
Therese Saliba is on the faculty of Evergreen State College and a former associate editor of Signs. Carolyn Allen is professor of English at the University of Washington and a former editor of Signs. Judith A. Howard is chair of the Department of Women's Studies and professor of sociology, at the University of Washington, president of the Pacific Sociological Association ... Read more
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