Women in Muslim societies :  diversity within unity /  [print] 
edited by Herbert L. Bodman, Nayereh Tohidi. 
 - Boulder, Colorado :  Lynne Rienner Publishers,  (c)1998. 
 - vii, 311 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction  Gender and religion in Hausaland: variations in Islamic practice in Niger and Nigeria  When modernity confronts traditional practices: female genital cutting in Northeast Africa  Cultural diversity within Islam: veils and laws in Tunisia  Power, ideology, and women's consciousness in postrevolutionary Iran  Persisting contradictions: Muslim women in Syria  From two states to one: women's lives in the transformation of Yemen  Between Lenin and Allah: women and ideology in Tajikistan  Kazak women: living the heritage of a unique past  Taslima Nasreen and others: the contest over gender in Bangladesh  Urban Minangkabau Muslim women: modern choices, traditional concerns in Indonesia  Muslim women in India: a minority within a minority  The issues at hand  Herbert L. Bodman --  Barbara M. Cooper --  Noor J. Kassamali --  M.M. Charrad --  Hisae Nakanishi --  Bouthaina Shaaban --  Linda Boxberger --"Guardians of the nation": women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan  Nayereh Tohidi --  Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh --  Paula A. Michaels --  Dina M. Siddiqi --  Lucy A. Whalley --  Shahida Lateef --  Nayereh Tohidi. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97040395 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Muslim women.<br/>Women in Islam.<br/>Women--Social conditions.--Islamic countries
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1170.T645.W664 1998