Muslim women's choices : religious belief and social reality /

Muslim women's choices : religious belief and social reality / [print] edited by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro. - English edition. - Providence, Rhode Island : Berg ; 1994. [New York] : Distributed in North America by New York University Press, (c)1994. - x, 206 pages ; 23 cm. - Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 12 . - Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 12. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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Muslim women--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.
Sex role--Religious aspects--Islam--Cross-cultural studies.
Women in Islam--Cross-cultural studies.

Islam Women

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