Research Catalog

Title

Islam, gender, & social change [electronic resource] / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & John L. Esposito.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c1998.

Details

Additional Authors

• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
• Esposito, John L.
• American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

xxviii, 259 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Alternative Title

Islam, gender, and social change

Subject

• Women in Islam
• Muslim women > Social conditions
• Sex role > Religious aspects > Islam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

Contents

Women in Islam and Muslim societies / John L. Esposito -- Islam and gender: dilemmas in the changing Arab world / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Gender issues and contemporary Quran interpretation / Barbara Stowasser -- Islam, social change, and the reality of Arab women's lives / Nadia Hijab -- Feminism in an Islamic republic: "Years of hardship, years of growth" / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state / Mervat Hatem -- Women and the state in Jordan: inclusion or exclusion? / Laurie A. Brand -- Slow yet steady path to women's empowerment in Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss -- Changing gender relations and the development process in Oman / Carol J. Riphenburg -- Women and religion in Bahrain: an emerging identity / May Seikaly -- Gender, Islam, and the state: Kuwaiti women in struggle, pre-invasion to postliberation / Margot Badran -- Philippine Muslim women: tradition and change / Vivienne SM. Angeles.

OCLC

(dli)HEB04707

Title

Islam, gender, & social change [electronic resource] / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & John L. Esposito.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c1998.

Series

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

Reproduction

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-

Esposito, John L.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Cover Title

Islam, gender, and social change

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Other Form:

Original 019511356X 0195113578 (DLC) 97002845