Title:
Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate / Leila Ahmed.
Author:
Ahmed, Leila, author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index.
Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East -- Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam -- Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future.
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Publication Place:
New Haven :
ISBN:
0300049420
9780300055832
Subject:
Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
Sexism -- Arab countries -- History.
Muslim women -- Attitudes.
Feminism -- Arab countries.
Feminism.
Islam Women
Contents:
Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East -- Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam -- Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future.
Physical Description:
viii, 296 pages ;
Publication Date:
1992.
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