TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kandiyoti,Deniz
TI  - Women, Islam, and the state
SN  - 0877227853
U1  - 305.486971 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Women
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Middle East
KW  - South Asia
N1  - 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

N2  - 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
ER  -