Hermeneutics and honor : negotiating female "public" space in Islamic/ate societies / edited by Asma Afsaruddin ; foreword by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ; with contributions by Anan Ameri ... [et al.].
Publisher:
Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press,
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-216) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the hermeneutics of gendered space and discourse / Asma Afsaruddin -- Conflict in peace : challenges confronting the Palestinian women's movement / Anan Ameri -- Woman's body, nation's honor : rape in Pakistan / Shahla Haeri -- Gender and sexuality : belonging to the national and moral order / Julie Peteet /"Gendering the nation" : reconfiguring national and self-identities in Azerbaijan -- Moving toward public space : women and musical performance in twentieth-century Egypt / Virginia Danielson -- "The law shall not languish" : social class and public conduct in sixteenth-century Ottoman legal discourse / Leslie Peirce -- Toward Islamic feminisms : a look at the Middle East / Margot Badran.
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