Muslim Women's Choices

Religious Belief and Social Reality
Herausgeber: Fawzi El-Solh, Camillia; Mabro, Judy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muslim societies - as well as Western perceptions of them - tend to be projected primarily through male perspectives. Our notion of the lives of women in these societies is far hazier and even more coloured by stereotypes than those of Muslim men. This volume intends to counter the prevailing views of Muslim women by presenting a cross-cultural perspective of their experiences and choices in contemporary Muslim communities, based on recent and hitherto unpublished research. The main theme running through these papers is the manner in which Muslim women consciously as well as unconsciously manipulate religious belief to negotiate their gender role within the situational context of their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780854968350
• ISBN-10: 0854968350
• Artikelnr.: 22038991

Autorenporträt

Camillia Fawzi El-Solh Research Associate,Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford Judy Mabro Freelance Editor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
C.F. El-Solh and J. Mabro; separation and reconciliation - marital conflict among the Muslim poor in Cairo
H. Watson; strategies of selection - differing notions of marriage in Iran and Morocco
Z. Mir-Hosseini; Islam and gender - the Nigerian case
G. Thomas-Emeagwali; separate but more than equal - Muslim women at the Cape
R. Ridd; mixed motives - Islam
nationalism and Mevluds in an unstable Yugoslavia
C. Soragbji; guardians of the faith? - gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik village
G. Tett; Islam in Azerbaijan - the position of women
T. Dragadze; women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry - choices and constraints
N. Kabeer; gender relations and Islamic resurgence in Mindanao
Southern Philippines
J. Siapno.