Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives - Hardcover

Yamani, Mai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863722032 ISBN 13: 9780863722035

Publisher: Ithaca Press, 1999

Synopsis

In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political strategies of feminists in the Islam world.

About this title

About the Author:

The first Saudi Arabian woman to ean a docorate from Oxford, Mai Yamani is Research associate at the Center of Ixlamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Review:

'the fusion of ... the legal and the literary, has a way of forcefully opening one's eyes to some of the horrendous realities that some women face daily in the Muslim world' Middle East 'a highly recommended read' East Magazine 

About this edition

• Publisher: Ithaca Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0863722032
• ISBN 13: 9780863722035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392