TY  - BOOK
TI  - Women and Islam
SN  - 9780275991586
U1  - 297.082 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Santa Barbara
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
KW  - Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions
N1  - 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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