Women And Islam : Critical Concepts In Sociology

Acknowledgements xv Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xix General introduction 1(34) PART 1 Imagining Muslim women 35(128) Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Women in Muslim history: traditional perspectives and new strategies 37(16) Fatima Mernissi The past and present of women in the Muslim world 53(27) Nikki R. Keddie Extract from `Women in the Middle East and North Africa: the 19th and 20th Centuries' 80(31) Judith E. Tucker Muslim Women and Colonial Imagination Veiled Half-Truths: Western Travellers' Perceptions of Middle Eastern Women, An Introduction 111(24) Judy Mabro The representation of Muslim women in renaissance England 135(12) Nabil I. Matar Orientalism: from unveiling to hyperveiling 147(16) Neil Macmaster Toni Lewis PART 2 Muslim laws and traditions 163(98) Women, the Qur'an and Patriarchal Interpretations Women, Islam and patriarchalism 165(15) Ghada Karmi Women and citizenship in the Qur'an 180(15) Barbara Freyer Stowasser Feminist theology: the challenges for Muslim women 195(14) Riffat Hassan The muted voices of women interpreters 209(15) Bouthaina Shaaban Legal Perspectives on Women's Status in Muslim Societies The cultural articulation of patriarchy: legal systems, Islam and women 224(20) Farida Shaheed Women, the law, and the family in Tunisia 244(5) Hafidha Chekir Law and gender violence in Ottoman and modern Egypt 249(12) Amira El Azhary Sonbol PART 3 Law of god and law of state: new policies, old realities 261 Post-Colonial Modernising States and Sexual Politics Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state 263(32) Mervat F. Hatem Some awkward questions on women and modernity in Turkey 295(18) Deniz Kandiyoti Citizenship and gender in Algeria 313(12) Marnia Lazreg Power of Culture, Force of Religion and Patriarchal State in Muslim Societies From gender equality to female subjugation: the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait 325(14) Haya Al-Mughni The mythology of modernity: women and democracy in Lebanon 339(18) Jean Said Makdisi A double-edged sword: challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria 357(8) Fatima L. Adamu Women and Human Rights Debates Restrictions on the rights and freedoms of women 365(37) Ann Elizabeth Mayer Muslim women and human rights in Saudi Arabia: aspirations of a new generation 402(9) Mai Yamani The dichotomy between religious and secular discourse in Islamic societies 411 Abdullahi An-Na 'Im Acknowledgements ix PART 4 Women, sexuality and sexual politics in Islamic cultures 1(142) Women, Sexuality, Body Image and Moral Order Sexuality and sexual politics: conflicts and contradictions for contemporary women in the Middle East 3(14) Evelyne Accad Sexual aggression against the female child 17(4) Nawal El Saadawi Female-centered world views in Iranian culture: symbolic representations of sexuality in dramatic games 21(21) Kaveh Safa-Isfahani Woman-woman love in Islamic societies 42(9) Stephen O. Murray The Muslim religious right ('fundamentalists') and sexuality 51(19) Ayesha M. Imam Veil and Gendered Morality in Islamic States The veil becomes a movement 70(22) Fadwa El Guindi Post-colonial feminism and the veil: thinking the difference 92(12) Lama Abu Odeh `Honour Killing' Intrafamily femicide in defence of honour: the case of Jordan 104(21) Fadia Faqir Commodifying honor in female sexuality: honor killings in Palestine 125(6) Suzanne Ruggi ``The killing seemed to be necessary'': Arab cultural affiliation as an extenuating circumstance in a Swedish verdict 131(12) Asa Elden PART 5 Family, education and health 143(118) Women, Marriage and Divorce in Muslim Societies The Arab family and the challenge of social transformation 145(21) Halim Barakat Temporary marriage: an Islamic discourse on female sexuality in Iran 166(18) Shahla Haeri Obedience (ta'a) in Muslim marriage: religious interpretation and applied law in Egypt 184(18) Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Lois Bardsley-Sirois Women and Reproductive Choice Arab culture and writing women's bodies 202(14) Leila Ahmed Abortion, Islam, and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference 216(29) Donna Lee Bowen Bargaining with fundamentalism: women and the politics of population control in Iran 245(16) Homa Hoodfar PART 6 Women, paid work and cultural conflict 261(112) Capitalist Development, Modernisation and Women's Work Women and modernization: a reevaluation 263(12) Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot Women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry: choices and constraints 275(19) Naila Kabeer The politics of gender and development in the Islamic republic of Iran 294(15) Eliz Sanasarian Persisting Inequalities: Education, Employment and Transformation of Gender Roles Ethnicity and female labour market participation: a new look at the Palestinian enclave in Israel 309(21) Nabil Khattab A study of girls' lack of access to primary education in the Islamic republic of Iran 330(17) Golnar Mehran Education behind the veil: women in Afghanistan 347(8) Sharifa Sharif Domesticity reconfigured: women in squatter areas of Amman 355(18) Seteney Shami PART 7 Arts and literature: women's literature in Islamic cultures 373 Reviewing beginnings 375(21) Mirjame Cooke The perils of writing 396(30) Farzaneh Milani Imagination as subversion: narrative as a tool of civic awareness 426(14) Azar Nafisi A voice from Iraq: the fiction of Alia Mamdouh: a cultural review 440 Farida Abu-Haidar Acknowledgements ix PART 8 Stretching the limits: women's struggle for change in Muslim societies 1(130) Women and Politics in Muslim Societies: Ideologies and Realities Ideology and identity: Islamism, gender, and the state in Sudan 3(26) Sondra Hale Feminism--or the eternal masculine--in the Arab world 29(18) Mai Ghoussoub Gender and citizenship in middle eastern states 47(11) Suad Joseph Gender and citizenship in Turkey 58(13) Yesim Arat National Liberation Movements and Women's Struggle for Change Behind the veil: the public and private faces of Khomeini's policies on Iranian women 71(16) Haleh Afshar Sexual politics of the Left 87(17) Haideh Moghissi Icons and militants: mothering in the danger zone 104(27) Juliet Peteet PART 9 Women and Islamic fundamentalism 131(204) Women's Rights and Islamic Fundamentalism The marriage of feminism and Islamism in Egypt: selective repudiation as a dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics 133(27) Lila Abu-Lughod The impact of the Islamic movement in Egypt 160(19) Hala Shukrallah Jordanian Islamists and the agenda for women: between discourse and practice 179(19) Lisa Taraki Women, Islam and the state in Pakistan 198(18) Farhat Haq Islamic Feminism or Feminist Challenges to Islam (Un)veiling feminism 216(17) Afsaneh Najmabadi The war against feminism in the name of the Almighty: making sense of gender and Muslim fundamentalism 233(25) Janet Afary Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic feminism 258(6) Margot Badran Islamist movements and women's responses in the Middle East 264(18) Valentine M. Moghadam Gender and Islamic fundamentalism: feminist politics in Iran 282(18) Nayereh Tohidi Women's Response to Fundamentalists' Gender Politics Islamic feminism, possibilities and limitations 300(20) Qudsia Mirza Islamic feminism: alternative or contradiction? 320(6) Shahrzad Mojab Algerian women at the edge of time: new social movements stand against fundamentalisms 326(9) Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas PART 10 Muslims in diaspora 335(143) Perceiving and Practicing Gendered Values in Diaspora Muslim women: negotiating in the third space 337(32) Shahnaz Khan Religion, male violence, and the control of women: Pakistani Muslim men in Bradford, UK 369(11) Marie Macey Muslim diaspora in western Europe: the Islamic headscarf (Hijab), the media and Muslims' integration in France 380(19) Chouki El Hamel Muslim women in an alien society: a case study of Germany 399(10) Munir D. Ahmed Crossing Gendered Identities in Diaspora Remembering mothers, forming daughters: Palestinian women's narratives in refugee camps in Lebanon 409(18) Rosemary Sayigh Shifting and conflicting identities: Iranian women political activists in exile 427(22) Halleh Ghorashi Muslim women's rights in the global village: challenges and opportunities 449(29) Azizah Yahia Al-Hibri Index 478