Muslim women's choices : religious belief and social reality / edited by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 12.Publication details: Providence, R.I. : Berg ; [New York] : Distributed in North America by New York University Press, 1994.Edition: English edDescription: x, 206 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0854968350 (cloth)
  • 0854968369 (paper)
  • 9780854968350 (cloth)
  • 9780854968367 (paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.09 El78m c.1, c.2
LOC classification:
  • HQ1170 .M848 1994
Other classification:
  • 71.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Islam and muslim women / Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro -- Separation and reconciliation : marital conflict among the Muslim poor in Cairo / Helen Watson -- Strategies of selection : differing notions of marriage in Iran and Morocco / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Islam and gender : the Nigerian case / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- Separate but more than equal : Muslim women at the Cape / Rosemary Ridd -- Mixed motives : Islam, nationalism and mevluds in an unstable Yugoslavia / Cornelia Sorabji -- "Guardians of the faith?" : gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik village / Gillian Tett -- Islam in Azerbaijan : the position of women / Tamara Dragadze -- Women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry : choices and constraints / Naila Kabeer -- Gender relations and Islamic resurgence in Mindanao, Southern Philippines / Jacqueline Siapno.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 297.09 El78m c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000936110
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 297.09 El78m c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Islam and muslim women / Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro -- Separation and reconciliation : marital conflict among the Muslim poor in Cairo / Helen Watson -- Strategies of selection : differing notions of marriage in Iran and Morocco / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Islam and gender : the Nigerian case / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- Separate but more than equal : Muslim women at the Cape / Rosemary Ridd -- Mixed motives : Islam, nationalism and mevluds in an unstable Yugoslavia / Cornelia Sorabji -- "Guardians of the faith?" : gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik village / Gillian Tett -- Islam in Azerbaijan : the position of women / Tamara Dragadze -- Women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry : choices and constraints / Naila Kabeer -- Gender relations and Islamic resurgence in Mindanao, Southern Philippines / Jacqueline Siapno.

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