Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate /
Ahmed, Leila,
Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate / Leila Ahmed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1992. - viii, 296 pages ; 25 cm
PennsylvaniaRT 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East -- Mesopotamia -- The Mediterranean Middle East PennsylvaniaRT 2: Founding Discourses: -- Women and the rise of Islam -- The transitional age -- Elaboration of the founding discourses -- Medieval Islam PennsylvaniaRT 3: New Discourses: -- Social and intellectual change -- The discourse of the veil -- The first feminists -- Divergent voices -- The struggle for the future.
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam.
9780300049428 9780300055832
91026901
GB9223925 bnb GB92Z6963 bnb
030-00494 Uk
Feminism--Arab countries.
Muslim women--Attitudes.
Sexism--History.--Arab countries
Women--Social conditions.--Arab countries
Islam Women
HQ1784 / .W664 1992 HQ1784
Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate / Leila Ahmed. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1992. - viii, 296 pages ; 25 cm
PennsylvaniaRT 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East -- Mesopotamia -- The Mediterranean Middle East PennsylvaniaRT 2: Founding Discourses: -- Women and the rise of Islam -- The transitional age -- Elaboration of the founding discourses -- Medieval Islam PennsylvaniaRT 3: New Discourses: -- Social and intellectual change -- The discourse of the veil -- The first feminists -- Divergent voices -- The struggle for the future.
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam.
9780300049428 9780300055832
91026901
GB9223925 bnb GB92Z6963 bnb
030-00494 Uk
Feminism--Arab countries.
Muslim women--Attitudes.
Sexism--History.--Arab countries
Women--Social conditions.--Arab countries
Islam Women
HQ1784 / .W664 1992 HQ1784