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020 _a97815558757871555875785
041 _aeng
050 _aHQ1170
_b.D5 1998
245 0 _aWomen in Muslim Societies :
_bDiversity within Unity /
_cedited by Herbert L. Bodman, Nayereh Tohidi
260 _aBoulder, Colorado :
_bLynne Rienner Publishers,
_c1998
300 _avii, 311 p.
_b;
_c23 cm.
505 _aIntroduction / Herbert L. Bodman -- Part 1: Africa. Gender and religion in Hausaland: variations in Islamic practice in Niger and Nigeria / Barbara M. Cooper ; When modernity confronts traditional practices: female genital cutting in Northeast Africa / Noor J. Kassamali ; Cultural diversity within Islam: veils and laws in Tunisia / M.M. Charrad -- Part 2: The Middle East. Power, ideology, and women's consciousness in postrevolutionary Iran / Hisae Nakanishi ; Persisting contradictions: Muslim women in Syria / Bouthaina Shaaban ; From two states to one: women's lives in the transformation of Yemen / Linda Boxberger --Part 3: Central Asia. "Guardians of the nation": women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi ; Between Lenin and Allah: women and ideology in Tajikistan / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh ; Kazak women: living the heritage of a unique past / Paula A. Michaels -- Part 4: South ans Southeast Asia. Taslima Nasreen and others: the contest over gender in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi ; Urban Minangkabau Muslim women: modern choices, traditional concerns in Indonesia / Lucy A. Whalley ; Muslim women in India: a minority within a minority / Shahida Lateef -- Part 5: Conclusion. The issues at hand / Nayereh Tohidi.
650 _aMuslim women.Women in Islam.Women—Islamic countries—Social conditions.
700 _aBodman, Herbert L.
700 _aTohidi, Nayereh
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