Presents the articles from a panel entitled: "Gender discourse and the indigenization of knowledge debate," organized by Cynthia Nelson for the Sixth Congress of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies held at Bayt al-Ayn University, Mafraq, Jordan, April 10-14, 1996 accompanied by 6 additional articles. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Globalization, Islam and the indigenization of knowledge / Philip Marfleet -- The Islamization of knowledge between particularism and globalization: Malaysia and Egypt / Mona Abaza -- Gendering globalization: alternative languages of modernity / Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse -- Struggling and surviving: the trajectory of Sheikh Moubarak Abdu Fadl, a historical figure of the Egyptian left / Didier Monciaud -- Al-daght: pressures of modern life in Cairo / Mohammed Tabishat -- Creating bodies, organizing selves: planning the family in Egypt / Kamran Asdar Ali -- Death of a midwife / Petra Kuppinger -- Problematizing marriage: minding my manners in my husband's community / Anita Häusermann Fábos -- A tale of two contracts: towards a situated understanding of "women interests" in Egypt / Heba El-Kholy -- "We are not feminists!" Egyptian women activists on feminism / Nadje Al-Ali.
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