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Additional authors

1. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
2. Esposito, John L.

Description

1. xxviii, 259 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative title

1. Islam, gender, and social change

Subject

1. Sex role > Religious aspects > Islam
2. Women in Islam
3. Muslim women > Social conditions

Contents

1. Women in Islam and Muslim societies / John L. Esposito -- Islam and gender: dilemmas in the changing Arab world / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Gender issues and contemporary Quran interpretation / Barbara Stowasser -- Islam, social change, and the reality of Arab women's lives / Nadia Hijab -- Feminism in an Islamic republic: "Years of hardship, years of growth" / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state / Mervat Hatem -- Women and the state in Jordan: inclusion or exclusion? / Laurie A. Brand -- Slow yet steady path to women's empowerment in Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss -- Changing gender relations and the development process in Oman / Carol J. Riphenburg -- Women and religion in Bahrain: an emerging identity / May Seikaly -- Gender, Islam, and the state: Kuwaiti women in struggle, pre-invasion to postliberation / Margot Badran -- Philippine Muslim women: tradition and change / Vivienne SM. Angeles.

Call number

1. *OGC 98-1008

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

Title

1. Islam, gender, & social change / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & John L. Esposito.

Imprint

1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

Added author

1. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
2. Esposito, John L.

Cover title

1. Islam, gender, and social change

LCCN

1. 97002845

ISBN

1. 019511356X (cloth)
2. 0195113578 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. *OGC 98-1008