ISBN:
9780429703157
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Women-Middle East-Social conditions..
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Muslim women-Social conditions
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Women-Social conditions-Cross-cultural studies..
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- PART ONE Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective -- 2 The Creation of the World We Know: The World-Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities -- 3 The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity -- 4 Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia -- 5 Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran -- PART TWO Country Case Studies -- 6 Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria -- 7 Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan -- 8 Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases -- 9 The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement -- 10 Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt -- 11 Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan -- 12 Moving Away from a Secular Vision? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India -- 13 Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement -- 14 Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey -- 15 Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim -- 16 The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic -- 17 Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States -- 18 Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics -- PART THREE Dilemmas and Strategies -- 19 The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws -- 20 Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity.
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