Feminism and Islam - Legal and Literary Perspectives (Paperback, New)

In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redifinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political srategies of feminists inb the Islam world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first Saudi Arabian woman to ean a docorate from Oxford, Mai Yamani is Research associate at the Center of Ixlamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

General

Imprint:	New York University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1996
First published:	December 1996
Editors:	Mai Yamani
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	392
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8147-9681-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-8147-9681-8
Barcode:	9780814796818

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