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Title:

Muslim women's choices : religious belief and social reality / edited by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro.

Publisher:

Berg,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

x, 206 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.--Islam--Cross-cultural studies.
Women in Islam--Cross-cultural studies.
Women, Muslim--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Mabro, Judy.
El-Solh, Camillia Fawzi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Islam and muslim women / Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro -- Separation and reconciliation : marital conflict among the Muslim poor in Cairo / Helen Watson -- Strategies of selection : differing notions of marriage in Iran and Morocco / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Islam and gender : the Nigerian case / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- Separate but more than equal : Muslim women at the Cape / Rosemary Ridd -- Mixed motives : Islam, nationalism and mevluds in an unstable Yugoslavia / Cornelia Sorabji -- "Guardians of the faith?" : gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik village / Gillian Tett -- Islam in Azerbaijan : the position of women / Tamara Dragadze -- Women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry : choices and constraints / Naila Kabeer -- Gender relations and Islamic resurgence in Mindanao, Southern Philippines / Jacqueline Siapno.

Series:

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 12

ISBN:

9780854968367
0854968369
9780854968350 (cased) :
0854968350 (cased) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28926851
(OCoLC)30779032

LCCN:

93036551

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)