Women Islam & the State

by Deniz Kandiyoti

Book Overview

Political projects of modern nation-states, the specificities of their nationalist histories and the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis diverse nationalisms are addressed in this volume with respect to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877227853
• ISBN13: 9780877227854
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

State policies and women in the Middle east

The book insists that women in the Middle Eat must be studie through the differing plitical projects on nation-sate, with their distinct histories, relatioship to colonialism and the West, class politics, ideological uses of an Islamic idiom, and struggles over the roleof Islamic law in state legal appartues. Linking attemptsat family reform and women's rights to the efforts of the modern state to break up the autonomy of local kin roups and thus enhancetheir own power, to mobilize labor forces or political constituencies to meet national needs, or most recently to meet the requirments of international develoment agencies.