Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate /

Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a "pure" Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new pers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahmed, Leila
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1992.
Subjects:
Women > Arab countries > Social conditions.
Sexism > Arab countries > History.
Muslim women > Attitudes.
Feminism > Arab countries.
Femmes > �Etats arabes > Conditions sociales.
Sexisme > �Etats arabes > Histoire.
Musulmanes > Attitudes.
F�eminisme > �Etats arabes.
Islam > Women
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: THE PRE-ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST: Mesopotamia
  • The Mediterranean Middle East
  • PART 2; FOUNDING DISCOURSES: Women and the rise of Islam
  • The transitional age
  • Elaboration of the founding discourses
  • Medieval Islam
  • PART 3: NEW DISCOURSES: Social and intellectual change
  • The discourse of the veil
  • The first feminists
  • Divergent voices
  • The struggle for the future
  • Conclusion.

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