Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate / Leila Ahmed.

By:

Ahmed, Leila [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780300049428
9780300055832

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LOC classification:

HQ1784 .W664 1992
HQ1784

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Contents:

Mesopotamia -- The Mediterranean Middle East

Women and the rise of Islam -- The transitional age -- Elaboration of the founding discourses -- Medieval Islam

Social and intellectual change -- The discourse of the veil -- The first feminists -- Divergent voices -- The struggle for the future.

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	HQ1784.A286.W664 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923002047328
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	HQ1784.A67 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923000808390

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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.

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