U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights / Kelly J. Shannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shannon, Kelly J., author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Civil rights--Islamic countries--History--20th century.

Muslim women.

Women's rights--Islamic countries--History--20th century.

Women's rights.

Muslim women--Islamic countries--Social conditions--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--Islamic countries--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century--Social aspects.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy.

Contents:

1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution

2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979

3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam

4. The First Gulf War and Saudi "Gender Apartheid"

5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s

6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration

7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9780812294538

081229453X

OCLC:

1011124005