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Women and Islam / edited by Zayn R. Kassam

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TextSeries: Women and religion in the worldPublication details: Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 400 pISBN: 9780275991586Subject(s): Women in Islam Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 297.082

Contents:

Paivi I. Women, Family, and Ena ironmlnt 1 1. Law and Iranian Women's Activism 3 Louise A. Hal per 2. Gendered Space and Shared Security: Women's Activism in Peace and Conlliet Resolution in Indonesia 19 Etin Anwar 3. Failures of Solidarity, Failures of the Nation-State; Nongovernmental Organizations and Moroccan Women's Acti\nsm 43 Rachel Newcomb Part II. Socioeconomic:s, Politics, and Authority 61 4. Beyond Personal Belief? The Role of Religious Identities among Muslim Women Respect Activists 63 Narzanin Massoiuni 5. In Search of Faithful Citizens in Posteolonial Malaysia: Islamic Ethics, Muslim Activism, and Feminist Politics 93 Azza Basarndin Part III. Body, Mind, and Spirit 129 6. Muslim Women's Scholarship and the New Gender jihad 131 Roxanne D. Marcotie 7. New Expressions ol Religiosity: Al-Fluda internationii! and the Expansion oF Islamic Education for Pakistani Muslim Women 163 KhiDiiitii Shaikh 8. "Women's Spirit" and "Spiritual i\Iatter(s)": Clender, Aeti\ ism, and Scholarship in an Ethiopian Eeo-Spiritual System 185 Pat ricia II. Karhiii-Taleghaiii Part IV. Siixu \i.ri\, PowiTt, and Vli.m rarii.ha 229 9. Staging Politics: New Cairrents in North Alriean Women s Dramatic Eiterature 231 Laura Chakravarty Bo.x 10. Indonesian Women: Activist and Islamist Spiritual Callings 245 Nelly van Doom-Harder 1 1. The Dialogics of a New Orientalist Discourse: TellingTales of Iranian Womanhood 263 Khani Begum Part V. Women, WoRLtwiEw, and REEicaous Pr.actice 289 12. Religious Practice and Worldview ol Muslim Women in Western Euro|)e 291 Kari Vogt 1 3. From Ritual to F3edemption: Worldview of Shi'a Muslim Women in Southern California 303 Bridget Blomfield 14. Religion as a Spring for Activ ism: Muslim Women Youth in Canada 325 Katherine Bullock

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Paivi I. Women, Family, and Ena ironmlnt 1
1. Law and Iranian Women's Activism 3
Louise A. Hal per
2. Gendered Space and Shared Security: Women's Activism in Peace
and Conlliet Resolution in Indonesia 19
Etin Anwar
3. Failures of Solidarity, Failures of the Nation-State; Nongovernmental
Organizations and Moroccan Women's Acti\nsm 43
Rachel Newcomb
Part II. Socioeconomic:s, Politics, and Authority 61
4. Beyond Personal Belief? The Role of Religious Identities among
Muslim Women Respect Activists 63
Narzanin Massoiuni
5. In Search of Faithful Citizens in Posteolonial Malaysia: Islamic
Ethics, Muslim Activism, and Feminist Politics 93
Azza Basarndin
Part III. Body, Mind, and Spirit 129
6. Muslim Women's Scholarship and the New Gender jihad 131
Roxanne D. Marcotie
7. New Expressions ol Religiosity: Al-Fluda internationii! and the
Expansion oF Islamic Education for Pakistani Muslim Women 163
KhiDiiitii Shaikh
8. "Women's Spirit" and "Spiritual i\Iatter(s)": Clender, Aeti\ ism,
and Scholarship in an Ethiopian Eeo-Spiritual System 185
Pat ricia II. Karhiii-Taleghaiii
Part IV. Siixu \i.ri\, PowiTt, and Vli.m rarii.ha 229
9. Staging Politics: New Cairrents in North Alriean Women s Dramatic
Eiterature 231
Laura Chakravarty Bo.x
10. Indonesian Women: Activist and Islamist Spiritual Callings 245
Nelly van Doom-Harder
1 1. The Dialogics of a New Orientalist Discourse: TellingTales of
Iranian Womanhood 263
Khani Begum
Part V. Women, WoRLtwiEw, and REEicaous Pr.actice 289
12. Religious Practice and Worldview ol Muslim Women in Western
Euro|)e 291
Kari Vogt
1 3. From Ritual to F3edemption: Worldview of Shi'a Muslim Women
in Southern California 303
Bridget Blomfield
14. Religion as a Spring for Activ ism: Muslim Women Youth in
Canada 325
Katherine Bullock

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