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Title:

Identity politics and women : cultural reassertions and feminisms in international perspective / edited by Valentine M. Moghadam.

Publisher:

Westview Press,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xiv, 458 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Feminism--Cross-cultural studies.
Identity (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies.
Muslim women--Social conditions.
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Middle East--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

(Cont.) Dilemmas and strategies. The preferential symbol for Islamic identity : women in Muslim personal laws / Marie-Aimée Hélie-Lucas -- Identity politics and women's ethnicity / Nira Yuval-Davis -- International standards of equality and religious freedom : implications for the status of women / Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations.
(Cont.) The social representation of women in Algeria's Islamist movement / Cherifa Bouatta and Doria Cherifati-Merabtine -- Gender activism : feminists and Islamists in Egypt / Margot Badran -- Identity politics and women : "fundamentalism" and women in Pakistan - Khawar Mumtaz -- Moving away from a secular vision? Women, nation, and the cultural construction of Hindu India / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Identity politics and the contemporary Indian feminist movement / Radha Kumar -- Women and fundamentalism : the case of Turkey / Binnaz Toprak -- Halakha, Zionism, and gender : the case of Gush Emunim / Madeleine Tress -- The role, place and power of middle-class women in the Islamic Republic / Shahin Gerami -- Paradoxical politics : gender politics among newly Orthodox Jewish women in the United States / Debra Renee Kaufman -- Women of the new right in the United States : family, feminism, and politics / Rebecca E. Klatch.
Theoretical, comparative, and historical perspectives. Introduction : women and identity politics in theoretical and comparative perspective / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The creation of the world we know : the world-economy and the re-creation of gendered identities / Joan Smith -- The ideal woman and the ideal society : control and autonomy in the construction of identity / Hanna Papanek -- Gender as an ethno-marker : rape, war, and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia / Silva Meznaric -- Women of the west imagined : the Farangi other and the emergence of the woman question in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- Country case studies. Politics, Islam, and women in Kano, Northern Nigeria / Ayesha M. Imam -- Gender, religious identity, and political mobilization in Sudan / Sondra Hale -- Feminism and Muslim fundamentalism : the Tunisian and Algerian cases / Alya Baffoun.

ISBN:

9780813386928 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
0813386926 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
9780813386911 (alk. paper) :
0813386918 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28586738

LCCN:

93028018

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)