Gender, politics, and Islam /

Gender, politics, and Islam / edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.[reprinted 2005]. - 354 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islamic feminism and its discontents: towards a resolution of the debate / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The politics of feminism in Islam / Anouar Majid -- The power paradox in Muslim women's Majales: North-West Pakistani mourning rituals as sites of contestation over religions politics, ethnicity, and gender / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Icons and militants: mothering in the danger zone / Julie Peteet -- Elusive bodies: the politics of aesthetics among Yemeni elite women / Gabriele von Bruck -- Contesting the illicit: gender and the politics of Fatwas in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin -- Women in the era of modernity and Islamic fundamentalism: the case of Taslima Nasrin of Bangladesh / S.M. Shamsul Alam -- Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab feminism in a transnational world / Amal Amireh -- Muslim women: negotiations in the third space / Shahnaz Khan.

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