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"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Americans. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish?
Now, traveling throughout Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Islamic communities in the United States, acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author Elizabeth Fernea sets out to answer that question.
Fernea's dialogue with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances prompts a range of diverse and unpredictable responses, but in every country she visits, women demonstrate they are anything but passive. In Iraq, we see an 85 percent literacy rate among women; in Egypt, we see women owning their own farms; and in Jerusalem, we see women at the very forefront of peacemaking efforts.
Poor or rich, educated or illiterate, these women define their own needs, solve their own problems, and determine the boundaries of their own very real, very viable feminisms.
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In search of Islamic feminism: one woman's global journey
1998, Doubleday
in English
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0385475187 9780385475181
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In search of Islamic feminism: one woman's global journey
1998, Anchor Books/Doubleday
in English
- 1st Anchor Books Trade pbk. ed.
0385488580 9780385488587
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In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
December 29, 1997, Doubleday
in English
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"I PEERED OUT the window of the Lufthansa plane at glistening fields of snow, stretching away and sloping upward in the dim moonlight as far as I could see."
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