Gender, politics, and Islam - Saliba, Therese; Allen, Carolyn (Carolyn J.); Howard, Judith A. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Muslim Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions; Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Political activity; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Women in Islam