Women, Islam, and the state / edited by Deniz Kandiyoti.
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TextSeries: Women in the political economyPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 1991Description: viii, 276 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0877227853
- 0877227861 (pbk.)
- 305.486971 20 K.D.W
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, D. Kandiyoti; end of empire - Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey, D. Kandiyoti; hazards of modernity and morality - women, state and ideology in contemporary Iran, A. Najmabadi; the convenience of subservience - women and the state of Pakistan, A. Jalal; the quest for national identity - women, islam and the state in Bangladesh, N. Kabeer; forced identities - communalism, fundamentalism and women in India, A. Chhachhi; elite strategies for state building - women, family, religion and the state in Iraq and Lebanon, S. Joseph; competing agendas - feminists, Islam and the state in 19th and 20th century Egypt, M. Badran; the law, the state and socialist policies with regard to women - the case of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, M. Molyneux.
Political projects of modern nation-states, the specificities of their nationalist histories and the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis diverse nationalisms are addressed in this volume with respect to their implications and consequences for women through a series of case studies.
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