Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World – serie
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Women, Water and Memory
Recasting Lives in Palestine
Häftad, 2008
1486 kr
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This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, …
Male Domination, Female Revolt
Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction
Av Ishaq Tijani
Inbunden, 2009
1818 kr
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This book investigates various forms of women’s resistance to male domination, as represented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. Drawing on Marxist-feminist literary theory, it closely analyses selected texts (published between 1953 and 2000), which reflect the effects of patriarchal culture and tradition …
Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal
Av Hasanat
Häftad, 2008
1230 kr
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Nawab Faizunnesa (1834-1903) challenged established notions regarding women’s position in a Muslim society in colonial Bengal. Her RupJalal was the first literary text written by a Bengali Muslim woman. The translated text is placed in the historical context of colonialism and the nationalist …
Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi
Av Raja Rhouni
Inbunden, 2009
3078 kr
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This book presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Fatima Mernissi. Mernissi is considered to be one of the major figures in Feminist thought for both Morocco and Muslim society in general. This work discusses Mernissi’s intellectual trajectory from ‘secular’ to ‘Islamic’ feminism in …
Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature
The Family Frontier
Av Dalya Abudi
Inbunden, 2010
3443 kr
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This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship and as the cornerstone of Arab family life. Drawing on autobiographical and semifictional works by women writers from across the Arab world, the study offers a first-hand account of …
Women, Leadership, and Mosques
Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority
Av Masooda Bano, Hilary E. Kalmbach
Inbunden, 2011
3509 kr
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The acceptance of female leadership in mosques and madrassas is a significant change from much historical practice, signalling the mainstream acceptance of some form of female Islamic authority in many places. This volume investigates the diverse range of female religious leadership present in …
Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia
Women’s Rights Movements, Religious Resurgence and Local Traditions
Inbunden, 2013
2808 kr
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The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia, which besides the Islamic core countries of Malaysia and Indonesia also comprises southern …
Essential Rokeya
Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
Inbunden, 2013
2257 kr
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In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya …
Ottoman Women in Public Space
Av Ebru Boyar
Inbunden, 2016
2498 kr
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Using a wealth of primary sources and covering the entire Ottoman period, Ottoman Women in Public Space challenges the traditional view that sees Ottoman women as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the home and not seen beyond the walls of the house or the public bath. Instead, …
Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times
Inbunden, 2019
1647 kr
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Border Lives offers an in-depth account of how people in Arsal, a northeastern town on the border of Lebanon with Syria, experienced postwar sociality, and how they grappled with living in the margins of the Lebanese state in the period following the 1975-1990 war. In a rich ethnography of …
Moroccan Female Religious Agents
Old Practices and New Perspectives
Av Aziza Ouguir
Inbunden, 2020
1630 kr
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In Moroccan Female Religious Agents: Old Practices and New Perspectives, Ouguir studies Moroccan female religious agents in particular historical women saints and Sufis, the way they constructed powerful saintly personalities that challenged the dominant conventional norms, and the way they are …
Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village
Generations of Change
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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In Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village: Generations of Change, Nancy W. Jabbra addresses change in women's and gender roles in a village in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. Employing ethnographic methods and secondary sources, she explores that change from the post-World War II period to the early …
Sufi Women of South Asia
Veiled Friends of God
Av Tahera Aftab
Inbunden, 2022
3216 kr
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In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the …
Judging Women’s Rights, Gender & Citizenship in Ben Ali’s Tunisia
Av Sarah Grosso
Inbunden, 2024
1749 kr
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Tunisia has often been commended for its progressive stance on women’s rights and viewed as a role model for family law reform in the Muslim world. Judging Women’s Rights, Gender & Citizenship in Ben Ali's Tunisia weaves together intimate stories and theory to demystify claims that the progressive …
King’s Physician
Lillias Hamilton at the Harem and Court of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2026
1513 kr
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This book examines the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a British woman who traveled to India and Afghanistan at end of nineteenth century and served as a medical advisor and physician to Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan.Hamilton’s accounts of her experiences in Afghanistan are …
