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Book Synopsis Women in Islamic Societies by : Bo Utas
Download or read book Women in Islamic Societies written by Bo Utas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983, this edited collection is based on contributions at a Scandinavian symposium on the place of women in Islamic society. It offers perspectives which illuminate our understanding of social relationships and structures pertaining to a vast number of the world’s population dispersed throughout Asia and Africa. Sociological and anthropological investigations of social organization and the behavioural patterns provided in these papers demonstrate that the status of women, their rights, duties and control over property, their body, the degree of seclusion and veiling, vary considerably. Overall, this collection of papers show that the relationship between Islam and the everyday lives of Muslim women is a complex picture, one that is confronted with a considerable range of interpretations of laws and traditions. This book will be of particular interest to those studying women and Islam, anthropology, religion and sociology.
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Women in Islamic Societies by : Various Authors
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Women in Islamic Societies written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 14750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Islamic societies are often seen as a hidden and homogenous group. The volumes in this set, originally published between 1960 and 1983, explore the wide variety of women’s roles in a range of Islamic societies, from Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Kurdistan to Malaysia, West Africa, Iran and Turkey. Due to their anthropological focus, each book pays particular attention to the everyday lives of women in these regions, including their agency and power within their own communities. The titles also explore women’s changing roles in the modernising Muslim world of the 20th century. This set will be of interest to those studying women, gender, Islam and anthropology.
Book Synopsis Women and Islam: Images and realities by : Haideh Moghissi
Download or read book Women and Islam: Images and realities written by Haideh Moghissi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.Titles also available in this series include, Shamanism (March 2004, 3 volumes, 395) and the forthcoming titles Childhood (2005, 4 volumes, c.495), Gender (2005, 4 volumes, c.495) and Knowledge (2005, 4 volumes, c.495).
Book Synopsis Women and Islam: Social conditions, obstacles and prospects by : Haideh Moghissi
Download or read book Women and Islam: Social conditions, obstacles and prospects written by Haideh Moghissi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering writings in Middle East studies by renowned scholars and by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender, this collection includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Exotic by : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Download or read book Beyond the Exotic written by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing) them—or Islamic society in general—"they" have been dealt with outside of general women’s history and regarded as having little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide. By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used material (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies. Scholars revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress. By deconstructing the past, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on women’s roles and aspirations in Middle East societies.
Book Synopsis Women and Islam: Women's movements in Muslim societies by : Haideh Moghissi
Download or read book Women and Islam: Women's movements in Muslim societies written by Haideh Moghissi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.Titles also available in this series include, Shamanism (March 2004, 3 volumes, 395) and the forthcoming titles Childhood (2005, 4 volumes, c.495), Gender (2005, 4 volumes, c.495) and Knowledge (2005, 4 volumes, c.495).
Book Synopsis Women in Islamic Societies by : Ruth Ulrich
Download or read book Women in Islamic Societies written by Ruth Ulrich and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This book provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses the actualities of women's lives in Muslim societies across multiple geographic regions. This book also discusses the differences in the Sunnis and Shiites in Islam.
Author :D. Fairchild Ruggles Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :0791493075 Total Pages :262 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies by : D. Fairchild Ruggles
Download or read book Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies written by D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look specifically at occasions when women publicly adopted the stance of the viewer, speaker, writer, or patron. Contributors include Ellison Banks Findly, Elizabeth Brown Frierson, Salah M. Hassan, Nancy Micklewright, Leslie Peirce, Kishwar Rizvi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Yasser Tabbaa, Lucienne Thys-Senoçak, and Ethel Sara Wolper.
Book Synopsis Muslim Women (RLE Women and Religion) by : Freda Hussain
Download or read book Muslim Women (RLE Women and Religion) written by Freda Hussain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Islam and the changing role-performance of Muslim women, given the various interpretations of the belief system of Islam, are described. It is the contention of the authors that it is these various interpretations which have given rise to the conflict between the ideal and contextual realities. This book also includes papers which investigate the problems of feminism and employment for Muslim women, as well as the educational and legal aspects of their lives in contemporary Islamic society. First published in 1984.
Book Synopsis Women and Peace in the Islamic World by : Yasmin Saikia
Download or read book Women and Peace in the Islamic World written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new pathways of peace in the contemporary world.
Book Synopsis Women in Islamic Societies by : Bo Utas
Download or read book Women in Islamic Societies written by Bo Utas and published by Routledge/Curzon. This book was released on 1983 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Muslim Societies by : Herbert L. Bodman (Jr.)
Download or read book Women in Muslim Societies written by Herbert L. Bodman (Jr.) and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors from a variety of disciplines assess the issues facing women in Muslim societies not only in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia. They stress the importance of historical context, local customs and policies in defining the status of Muslim women, and examine how women are coping with challenges such as modernity and conservative reaction.
Author :Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions Publisher :Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies by : Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions
Download or read book Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies written by Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions and published by Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Muslim Women in America by : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Download or read book Muslim Women in America written by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims. In their public and private lives, Muslim women are actively negotiating what it means to be a woman and a Muslim in an American context. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore offer a much-needed survey of the situation of Muslim American women, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in America, the book investigates Muslim attempts to form a new "American" Islam. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions. A final chapter asks whether 9/11 will prove to have been a watershed moment for Muslim women in America. This groundbreaking work presents the diversity of Muslim American women and demonstrates the complexity of the issues. Impeccably researched and accessible, it broadens our understanding of Islam in the West and encourages further exploration into how Muslim women are shaping the future of American Islam.
Book Synopsis Women, Islam, and the State by : Deniz Kandiyoti
Download or read book Women, Islam, and the State written by Deniz Kandiyoti and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays examines the relationship between Islam, the nature of state projects, and the position of women in the modern nation states of the Middle East and South Asia. Arguing that Islam is not uniform across Muslim societies and that women's roles in these societies cannot be understood simply by looking at texts and laws. the contributors focus, instead, on the effects of the political projects of states on the lives of women.--provided by publisher.
Download or read book Feminism and Islam written by Mai Yamani and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the shari'a (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Arab societies in general, Feminism and Islam brings together renowned women researchers and academics -- historians, political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, social anthropologists, and literary critics -- to examine the examine the phenomenon of feminism within the Islamic cultural framework. Introducing a feminism which is "Islamic" in its form and context, the essays focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women and entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political strategies of feminists in the Islamic world." -- Back cover
Author :Federal Research Division Library of Congress Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781503388734 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (887 download)
Book Synopsis Women in Islamic Societies by : Federal Research Division Library of Congress
Download or read book Women in Islamic Societies written by Federal Research Division Library of Congress and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the developed West. This study provides a literature review of recent empirical social science scholarship that addresses the actualities of women's lives in Muslim societies across multiple geographic regions. The study seeks simultaneously to orient the reader in the available social scientific literature on the major dimensions of women's lives and to present analyses of empirical findings that emerge from these bodies of literature. Because the scholarly literature on Muslim women has grown voluminous in the past two decades, this study is necessarily selective in its coverage. It highlights major works and representative studies in each of several subject areas and alerts the reader to additional significant research in lengthy footnotes. In order to handle a literature that has grown voluminous in the past two decades, the study includes an "Introduction" and a section on "The Scholarship on Women in Islamic Societies" that offer general observations bird's eye views of the literature as a whole. The Introduction describes the two main sources of the social scientific studies on women in Muslim communities, namely, 1) academic programs on women worldwide that emerged under the impetus of post-1970s women's movements and 2) international and national economic development agencies that came to see women's disadvantaged status as a hindrance to development. It also describes the broad thrust of the social scientific literature on various spheres or dimensions of Muslim women's lives: ideology, law, family, economy, and politics. "The Scholarship on Women in Islamic Societies" section describes features that pervade the entire literature. One feature is that the studies tend to align themselves on a spectrum between two interpretive poles, one relatively negative, the other positive, about the situation of women in Islamic societies. The second feature is that the literature is highly uneven in its coverage, with a disproportionate representation, in particular, of the Middle East and North Africa region. It also discusses the sources of the primary data upon which researchers draw in studies across a variety of fields and describes two types of work that make up the literature on women in Muslim societies, specialized microstudies and projects of consolidation. The final section "Dimensions of Women's Status and Bodies of Research" characterizes the bodies of literature that have developed to illuminate particular dimensions of women's lives. This portion covers, in separate sections, the substantial bodies of social scientific work that have developed on each of the following major dimensions of women's experience and condition: religious ideology, law, demography, family, economics, and politics.
