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Title:

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,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xi, 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Gender identity--Islamic countries.
Women--Islamic countries--Social conditions.
Hermeneutics--Islam.--Islam.
Feminism--Islamic countries.

Other Authors:

Afsaruddin, Asma, 1958-
Ameri, Anan.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs, 32

ISBN:

9780932885210
0932885217

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43111758

Locations:

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

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)