TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kassam,Zayn
TI  - Women and Islam
T2  - Women and religion in the world
SN  - 9780275991586
AV  - BP173 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 2; Law and Iranian women's activism; Louise A. Halper --; Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia; Etin Anwar --; Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism; Rachel Newcomb --; Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists; Narzanin Massoumi --; In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics; Azza Basarudin --; Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad; Roxanne D. Marcotte --; New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women; Khanum Shaikh --; "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system; Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani --; Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature; Laura Chakravarty Box --; Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings; Nelly Van Doorn-Harder --; The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood; Kahani Beguum --; Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe; Kari Vogt --; From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California; Bridget Blomfield --; Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada; Katherine Bullock; 2
N2  - A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world
ER  -