| Description |
xiv, 458 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Theoretical, comparative, and historical perspectives. Introduction : women and identity politics in theoretical and comparative perspective / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The creation of the world we know : the world-economy and the re-creation of gendered identities / Joan Smith -- The ideal woman and the ideal society : control and autonomy in the construction of identity / Hanna Papanek -- Gender as an ethno-marker : rape, war, and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia / Silva Meznaric -- Women of the west imagined : the Farangi other and the emergence of the woman question in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- Country case studies. Politics, Islam, and women in Kano, Northern Nigeria / Ayesha M. Imam -- Gender, religious identity, and political mobilization in Sudan / Sondra Hale -- Feminism and Muslim fundamentalism : the Tunisian and Algerian cases / Alya Baffoun. |
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(Cont.) The social representation of women in Algeria's Islamist movement / Cherifa Bouatta and Doria Cherifati-Merabtine -- Gender activism : feminists and Islamists in Egypt / Margot Badran -- Identity politics and women : "fundamentalism" and women in Pakistan - Khawar Mumtaz -- Moving away from a secular vision? Women, nation, and the cultural construction of Hindu India / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Identity politics and the contemporary Indian feminist movement / Radha Kumar -- Women and fundamentalism : the case of Turkey / Binnaz Toprak -- Halakha, Zionism, and gender : the case of Gush Emunim / Madeleine Tress -- The role, place and power of middle-class women in the Islamic Republic / Shahin Gerami -- Paradoxical politics : gender politics among newly Orthodox Jewish women in the United States / Debra Renee Kaufman -- Women of the new right in the United States : family, feminism, and politics / Rebecca E. Klatch. |
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(Cont.) Dilemmas and strategies. The preferential symbol for Islamic identity : women in Muslim personal laws / Marie-Aimée Hélie-Lucas -- Identity politics and women's ethnicity / Nira Yuval-Davis -- International standards of equality and religious freedom : implications for the status of women / Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations. |
| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Middle East. |
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Social conditions. |
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Muslim women -- Social conditions.
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Muslim women -- Social conditions. |
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Feminism -- Cross-cultural studies. |
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Social change -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social change -- Cross-cultural studies. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
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| ISBN |
0813386918 alkaline paper $54.00 |
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0813386926 paperback alkaline paper $17.95 |
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