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Feminist Insiders-Outsiders : Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement

Uthman, Ibrahim Olatunde [Verfasser]

1st ed.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (262 pages)

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978-1-4438-1567-3 ; 978-1-4438-1350-1

 

Nigeria  Muslimin  Feminismus  Frauenbewegung 

 

This book examines different brand of women's feminist struggles and focuses on the struggles of Muslim women who are insiders in the Islamic Movement, as represented in Nigerian Muslim women's Islamic activism. Drawing on different secular-Islamic Gender feminist theoretical frameworks, the book closely analyses Islamic texts and these Muslim women brand of feminism, which reflect the effects of their strong Islamic commitment culture on their gender relations, postulations and feminist stru...