Islam, gender, & social change / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, & John L. Esposito.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935- editor.

Esposito, John L., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Islam.

Muslim women--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Islam.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 259 pages)

Other Title:

Islam, gender, and social change

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The essays collected in this book place this issue in its historical context and offer case studies of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia. These fascinating studies shed light on the impact of the Islamic resurgence on gender issues in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Oman, Bahrain, the Philippines, and Kuwait. Taken together, the essays reveal the wide variety that exists among Muslim societies and believers, and the complexity of the issues under consideration. They show that new things are happening for women across the Islamic world, and are in many cases being initiated by women themselves. The volume as a whole militates against the stereotype of Muslim women as repressed, passive, and without initiative, while acknowledging the very real obstacles to women's initiatives in most of these societies."--Jacket

Contents:

Women in Islam and Muslim societies / John L. Esposito

Islam and gender: dilemmas in the changing Arab world / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Gender issues and contemporary Quran interpretation / Barbara Stowasser

Islam, social change, and the reality of Arab women's lives / Nadia Hijab

Feminism in an Islamic republic: "Years of hardship, years of growth" / Afsaneh Najmabadi

Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state / Mervat Hatem

Women and the state in Jordan: inclusion or exclusion? / Laurie A. Brand

Slow yet steady path to women's empowerment in Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss

Changing gender relations and the development process in Oman / Carol J. Riphenburg

Women and religion in Bahrain: an emerging identity / May Seikaly

Gender, Islam, and the state: Kuwaiti women in struggle, pre-invasion to postliberation / Margot Badran

Philippine Muslim women: tradition and change / Vivienne SM. Angeles.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773966-0

0-19-028326-2

0-19-976175-2

0-585-28383-4

OCLC:

45733433

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04707 hdl