TY - BOOK AU - Bodman,Herbert L. AU - Tohidi,Nayere Esfahlani TI - Women in Muslim societies: diversity within unity AV - HQ1170.T645.W664 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Boulder, Colorado PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers KW - Muslim women KW - Women in Islam KW - Women KW - Islamic countries KW - Social conditions N1 - 2; Introduction; Herbert L. Bodman --; Gender and religion in Hausaland: variations in Islamic practice in Niger and Nigeria; Barbara M. Cooper --; When modernity confronts traditional practices: female genital cutting in Northeast Africa; Noor J. Kassamali --; Cultural diversity within Islam: veils and laws in Tunisia; M.M. Charrad --; Power, ideology, and women's consciousness in postrevolutionary Iran; Hisae Nakanishi --; Persisting contradictions: Muslim women in Syria; Bouthaina Shaaban --; From two states to one: women's lives in the transformation of Yemen; Linda Boxberger --"Guardians of the nation": women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan; Nayereh Tohidi --; Between Lenin and Allah: women and ideology in Tajikistan; Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh --; Kazak women: living the heritage of a unique past; Paula A. Michaels --; Taslima Nasreen and others: the contest over gender in Bangladesh; Dina M. Siddiqi --; Urban Minangkabau Muslim women: modern choices, traditional concerns in Indonesia; Lucy A. Whalley --; Muslim women in India: a minority within a minority; Shahida Lateef --; The issues at hand; Nayereh Tohidi; 2 ER -