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Title:

On shifting ground : Muslim women in the global era / edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.

Publisher:

Feminist Press at the City University of New York,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xxv, 282 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Muslim women--Social conditions--21st century.
Muslim women--Arab countries--Social conditions--21st century.
Feminism--Arab countries.
Women in popular culture--Arab countries.

Other Authors:

Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The satellite, the prince, and Scheherazade : women as communicators in digital Islam / Fatema Mernissi -- On and off camera in Egyptian soap operas : women, television, and the public sphere / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Singing a new song : bonding and breaking with the past / Sherifa Zuhur -- Wings of freedom : Iranian women, identity, and cyberspace / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone -- The challenge of globalization in Saudi Arabia / Mai Yamani -- Globalizing equality : Muslim women, theology, and feminism / Asma Barlas -- Feminist theory, agency, and the liberatory subject / Saba Mahmood -- The veil debate--again / Leila Ahmed -- Between religion and secularism : Islamist women of Hamas / Isiah Jad -- The prospects for democracy : women reformists in the Iranian parliament / Elaheh Koolaee -- Women and civil society in Iran / Mehrangiz Kar -- Sisters in Islam and the struggle for women's rights / Zainah Anwar -- Women and the dynamics of transnational networks / Meena Sharify-Funk -- Shirin Ebadi : a perspective on women's rights in the context of human rights / Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.

ISBN:

9781558615144
1558615148
9781558615137
155861513X

LCCN:

2005020033

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)