Gender, Politics, and Islam

by Amal Amireh

This collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam, these essays focus on women's negotiations for identity, power and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book gathers essays from the journal Signs on women in the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora to explore how women negotiate identities and attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226734293
• ISBN13: 9780226734293
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"