TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed,Leila
TI  - Women and gender in Islam: historical roots of a modern debate 
SN  - 9780300049428
AV  - HQ1784 .W664 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Sexism
KW  - History
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Islam
N1  - 1 (pages 249-279) and index; 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; 2
N2  - 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
ER  -