Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Esposito, John L.
• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-

Description

xxviii, 259 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The essays collected in this book place this issue in its historical context and offer case studies of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia. These fascinating studies shed light on the impact of the Islamic resurgence on gender issues in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Oman, Bahrain, the Philippines, and Kuwait. Taken together, the essays reveal the wide variety that exists among Muslim societies and believers, and the complexity of the issues under consideration. They show that new things are happening for women across the Islamic world, and are in many cases being initiated by women themselves. The volume as a whole militates against the stereotype of Muslim women as repressed, passive, and without initiative, while acknowledging the very real obstacles to women's initiatives in most of these societies."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Islam, gender, and social change

Subject

• Gender Identity
• Islam
• Muslim women > Social conditions
• Sex role > Islam
• Social Change
• Women
• Women in Islam

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 019511356X (cloth)
• 0195113578 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97002845^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library