ROUTLEDGE
WOMEN AND ISLAM
Critical Concepts in Sociology
Edited by: Haideh Moghissi
This three-volume interdisciplinary collection will be of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.
The collection offers the most influential writings in the field by both renowned scholars as well as those by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender and includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.
Contents:
Volume I: Images and Realities
Part One: Imagining Muslim Women
i) Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Fatima Mernissi 'Women in Muslim History: Traditional Perspectives and New Strategies' in S. Jay Kleinberg (ed.) Retrieving Women's History: Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society, (Oxford: Berg, 1988), pp. 338-355.
2. Nikki R. Keddie, 'The Past and the Present of Women in the Muslim World', Journal of World History, 1990, 1, 1, spring, pp. 77-108.
3. Judith E. Tucker, 'Women in the Middle East and North Africa: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' in Guity Nashat and Judith Tucker (eds.) Women in the Middle East and North Africa, (Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 101-31.
ii) Muslim Women and Colonial Imagination
4. Judy Mabro, excerpt from the introduction to Veiled Half-Truths: Western Travellers' Perseptions of Middle Eastern Women. (I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1991), pp1-27.
5. Nabil I. Matar 'The Representation of Muslim Women in Renaissance England', The Muslim World, Volume LXXXVI No. 1, pp. 50-61.
6. Neil Macmaster and Toni Lewis 'Orientalism: From Unveiling to hyperveiling', European Studies, xxviii, 1998, pp. 121-35.
Part Two: Muslim Laws and Traditions
i) Women, the Quran and patriarchal interpretations
7. Ghada Karmi, 'Women, Islam and Patriarchalism' in Mai Yamani (ed.) Feminism and Islam:Legal and Literary Perspectives, (New York University Press, 1996), pp. 69-83.
8. Riffat Hassan, 'Feminist Theology: The Challenges for Muslim Women', Critique, No. 9, Fall 1996, pp. 53-65.
9. Bouthaina Shaaban, 'The Muted Voices of Women Interpreters' in Mahnaz Afkhami (ed.), Faith & Freedom: Women's Human Rights in The Muslim World, (Syracuse Unviersity Press, 1995), pp. 61-77.
10. Barbara Freyer Stowasser ' Women and Citizenship in the Qur'an' in Amira El Azhary Sonbol (ed.), Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, (Syracus University Press, 1996), pp. 23-38.
ii) Legal Perspectives on Women's Status in Muslim Societies
11. Fareeda Shaheed, 'The Cultural Articulation of Patriarchy: Legal Systems, Islam and Women', South Asia Bulletin, 1986, 6(1), pp. 38-44
12. Hafidha Chekir 'Women, the Law, and the Family in Tunisia', Gender and Development, 1996, V. 4, No. 2, June, pp. 43-46.
13. Amira El Azhary Sonbol 'Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt' in Amira El Azhary Sonbol (ed.) Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, (Syracus University Press, 1996), pp. 277-89.
Part Three: Law of God and Law of State: New Policies, Old Realities.
i) Post-colonial Modernizing States and Sexual Politics
14. Mervan F. Hatem, 'Secularist and Islamist Discourses on Modernity in Egypt and the Evolution of the Postcolonial Nation-Sate' in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito (eds.), Islam, Gender, and Social Change, (Oxford University Press, Inc: 1998), pp. 85-99.
15. Deniz Kandiyoti, 'Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey', in Lila Abu-Lughod (ed.), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 270-87
16. Marnia Lazreg, 'Citizenship and Gender in Algeria' in Suad Joseph (ed.), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, (Syracuse University Press, 2000), pp. 58-69.
ii) Power of Culture, Force of religion and Patriarchal State in Muslim Societies
17. Haya-al Mughni, 'From Gender Equality to Female Subjugation:The Changing Agendas of Women's Groups in Kuwait', in Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo (eds.), Organizing Women: Formal and informal women's groups in the middle east, (BERG, 1997), pp. 195-209.
18. Jean Said Makdisi 'The Mythology of Modernity:Women and Democracy in Lebanon', in Mai Yamani (ed.), Feminism and Islam:Legal and Literary Perspectives, (New York University Press, 1996), pp. 231-49.
19. Fatima L. Adamu 'A Double-Edged Sword: Challenging Women's Oppression within Muslim Society in Northern Nigeria' in Gender and Development, 1999 7, 1, Mar, pp. 57-61.
iii) Women and Human rights Debates
20. Ann Elizabeth Mayer, 'Restrictions on the Rights and Freedoms of Women', in Islam and Human Rights, (Westview Press, 1995), pp. 93-122.
21. Mai Yamani, 'Muslim Women and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia', Eugene Cotran and Mai Yamani (eds.), The Rule of Law in the Middle East and the Islamic World, (I. B. Taurus, 2000), pp. 137-43.
22. Abdullahi An-Na'im, 'The Dichotomy Between Religious and Secular Discourse in Islamic Societies', in Mahnaz Afgkhami, (ed.), Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World, (Suracuse University Press, 1995), pp.
51-60.
Volume II: Social Conditions, Obstacles and Prospects
Part Four: Women, Sexuality and Sexual Politics in Islamic Cultures
i) Women, Sexuality, body image and moral order
23. Evelyne Accad, 'Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for
Contemporary Women in the Middle East', in Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed),Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Women for Women's Human Rights, (Kadinin Insam Haklari Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), pp. 37-50.
24. Nawal El Saadawi, 'Sexual Aggression Against the Female Child' in Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed), Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Women for Women's Human Rights, (Kadinin Insam Haklari Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), pp. 301-04.
25. Ayesha M. Imam, 'The Muslim Religious Right ('Fundamentalists') and Sexuality'
Contemporary Women in the Middle East', in Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed), Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Women for Women's Human Rights, (Kadinin Insam Haklari Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000), pp. 121-139.
26. Kaveh Safa Isfahani, 'Female-Centered World Views in Iranian Culture: Symbolic Representations of Sexuality in Dramatic Games,' Signs, 1980, 6, 1, autumn, pp. 33-53.
27. Stephen O. Murray 'Woman-Woman Love in Islamic Societies', in Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe (eds), Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature, (New York University Press, 1997), pp. 97-104.
ii) Veil and Gendered Morality in Islamic States
28. Fadwa El Guindi, 'The Veil Becomes a Movement', in Veil, Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, BERG, 1999, Chapter 8, pp. 129-45.
29. Lama Abu Odeh 'Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil:Thinking the Difference', Feminist Review, No. 43, 1993, Spring, pp. 26-37.
iii) 'Honour' killing
30. Fadia Faqir 'Intrafamily Femicide in Defence of Honour: The Case of Jordan' Third World Quarterly, 2001, 22, 1, Feb, pp. 65-82.
31. Suzanne Ruggi 'Commodifying Honor in Female Sexuality: Honor Killings in Palestine' in Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed), Women for Women's Human Rights, Kadinin Insam Haklari Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000, pp. 393-98.
32. Asa Elden ''The Killing seemed to be necessary': Arab cultural affiliation as an extenuating circumstance in a Swedish verdict' in NORA no. 2, 1998, Volume 6, pp. 89-96.
Part Five: Family, Education and Health
i) Women, Marriage and Divorce in Muslim Societies
33. Halim Barakat, 'The Arab Family and the Challenge of Social Transformation' in Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Women and the Family in the Middle East, University of Texas, Press, 1985, pp. 27-48.
34. Shahla Haeri 'Temporary Marriage: an Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality in Iran' in In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran, edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994, pp. 98-114.
35. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Lois Bardsley-Sirois, Obdience (TA'A) in Muslim Marriage:Religious Interpretation and Applied Law in Egypt', Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 21, 1, Spring 1990, pp. 39-53.
ii) Women and Reproductive Choice
36. Leila Ahmed 'Arab Culture and Writing Women's Bodies' Feminist Issues', V. 9, No. 1, Spring, pp. 41-55.
37. Homa Hoodfar 'Bargaining with Fundamentalism: Women and the Politics of Population Control in Iran' in Reproductive Health Matters, 1996, 8, Nov., 30-40.
38. Donna Lee Bowen, 'Abortion, Islam and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference', International Jouranl of Middle East Studies, Vol 29, No. 2, May 1997, pp. 161-84.
Part Six: Women, Paid work and Cultural Conflict
i) Capitalist Development, Modernization and Women's work
39. Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot 'Women and Modernization: A Reevaluation' in Amira El Azhary Sonbol ed., Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, (Syracuse University Press, 1996), pp. 39-51.
40. Naila Kabeer 'Women's Labour in the Bangladesh Garment Industry: Choices and Constraints' in Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro (eds), Muslim Women's Choices: Religious Belief and Social Reality, (Providence/Oxford: Berg, 1994), pp. 164-83.
41. Eliz Sanasarian 'The Politcs of Gender and Development in the Islamic Republic of Iran' Journal of Developing Societies, 8, January - April 1992, pp. 56-68.
ii) Persisting Inequalities: Education, Employment, and Transformation of Gender Roles
42. Nabil Khattab, 'Ethnicity and female labour market participation: a new look at the Palestinian enclave in Israel,' Work, Employment & Society, 16, 1, 2002, pp. 91-110.
43. Golnar Mehran 'A Study of Girls' Lack of Access to Primary Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran' Compare, 1997, 27, 3, pp. 263-76.
44. Sharifa Sharif 'Education Behind the Veil:Women in Afghanistan', Women's Education des Femmes, Vol 11, No. 2, pp. 4-9.
45. Steteney Shami 'Domesticity Reconfigured:Women in Squatter Areas of Amman' in Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo (eds.), Organizing Women: Formal and informal women's groups in the middle east, (BERG, 1997) pp. 81-99.
Part Seven: Arts and Literature: Women's Literature in Muslim World
46. Miriame Cooke, 'Arab Women's Literary History', in Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature, (New York, London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1-27.
47. Miriame Cooke, 'Reviewing Beginnings', in Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature, (New York, London: Routledge, 2001), pp.53-82.
48. Farzaneh Milani, 'The Perils of Writing', in Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers, (Syracuse University Press, 1992), pp. 46-73.
49. Azar Nafisi 'Imagination as Subversion: Narrative as a Tool of Civic Awareness', in Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl, (eds.), Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997), pp. 58- 71.
50. Farida Abu-Haidar 'A Voice from Iraq: The Fiction of Alia Mamdouh' Women, V. 9, No. 3, Autumn, pp. 305-11.
Volume III: Women's Movements in Muslim Societies
Part Eight: Stretching the Limits: Women's Struggle for Change in the Muslim Societies
i) Women and Politics in Muslim Societies: Ideologies and Realities
51. Sondra Hale 'Ideology and Identity: Islamism, Gender, and the State in Sudan', in Judy Brink and Joan Mencher (eds.) Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally, (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 117-42.
52. Mai Ghoussoub 'Feminism-Or The Eternal Masculine-in the Arab World' New Left Review [Great Britain], 1987 (161), pp. 3-18.
53. Suad Joseph, 'Gender and Citizenship in Middle Eastern States' Middle East Report. No. 198, January-March 1996, pp. 4-10
54. Yesim Arat 'Gender and Citizenship in Turkey', in Suad Joseph (ed.), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, (Syracuse University Press, 2000), pp. 275-86.
ii) National Liberation Movements and Women's Struggle for Change.
55. Haleh Afshar 'Behind the Veil: the Public and Private Faces of Khomeini's Policies on Iranian Women', in Bina Agarwal, (ed.) Structures of Patriarchy: State, Community and Household in Modernising Asia, (Kali for Women, 1988), pp. 228-47.
56. Haideh Moghissi, 'Sexual politics of the Left' in Populism and Feminism in Iran, (London: The Macmillan Press), pp. 88-104.
57. Juliet Peteet 'Icons and Militants: Mothering in the Danger Zone', in Therese Saliba, C.Allen and J.A. Howard (eds.), Gender, Politics and Islam, (University of Chicago Press, 2002), pp. 133-59.
Part Nine: Women and Islamic Fundamentalism
i) Women's rights and Islamic Fundamentalism
58. Lisa Taraki 'Jordanian Islamists and the Agenda for Women: Between Discourse and Practice' Middle East Studies, Vol. 32, No 1, January 1996, pp. 140-58.
59. Qudsia Mirza, 'Islamic Feminism, Possibilities and Limitations,' in John Strawson (ed.) Law After Ground Zero, (Sydney, London, Portland: Glasshouse Press, 2002), pp. 108-22.
60. Farhat Haq 'Women, Islam and the State in Pakistan', The Muslim World, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 2, April 1996, pp. 158-75.
ii) Women's Response to Fundamentalists' Gender Politics
61. Afsaneh Najmabadi '(Un)veiling Feminism', Social Text, Vol. 18, no 3, Fall 2000, pp. 29-45.
62. Hala Shukrallah 'The Impact of the Islamic Movement in Egypt' Feminist Review, 1994, 47, summer, pp. 15-32.
63. Nayereh Tohidi 'Gender and Islamic Fundamentalism: Feminist Politics in Iran' in Chandra T. Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds.), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 251-65.
64. Valentine M. Moghadam, 'Islamist Movements and Women's Responses in the Middle East', Gender and History, Vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 1991, pp. 268-84.
65. Janet Afary, 'The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism', New Left Review, 224, 1997, pp. 89-110.
iii) Islamic Feminism or Feminist Challenges to Islam
66. Lila Abu-Lughod 'The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics' in Lila Abu-Lughod (ed.) Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 243-69.
67. Margot Badran 'Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic Feminism' Journal of Women's History, V. 13, No. 1, Spring, pp. 47-52.
68. Shahrzad Mojab 'Islamic Feminism: Alternative or Contradiction?' Fireweed, 1995, pp. 18-25.
69. Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas 'Algerian Women at the Edge of Times: New Social Movements stand Against Fundamentalism', Resources for Feminist Research 1998/1999, 26, 3-4, fall-winter, pp. 213-20.
Part Ten: Muslims in diaspora
i) Perceiving and practicing Gendered Values in Diaspora
70. Shahnaz Khan 'Muslim Women: Negotiating in the Third Space', Signs, Vo. 23, No. 2, pp. 463-94.
71. Marie Macey 'Religion, Male Violence and the Control of Women: Pakistani Muslim Men in Bradford, UK', Gender and Development, V. 7, No. 1, March, 1999, pp. 48-55.
72. Chouki El-Hamel, 'Muslim Diaspora in Western Europe: The Islamic Headscarf (Hijab), the Media and Muslims' Integration in France,' Citizenship-Studies; 2002, 6, 3, Sept, pp. 293-308.
73. Munir D. Ahmed, 'Muslim Women in an Alien Society: A Case Study of Germany,' Journal - Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 13, 1992, pp. 71-79.
ii) Crossing Gendered Identities in Diaspora
74. Rosemary Sayigh 'Remembering Mothers, Forming Daughters: Palestinian Women's Narratives in Refugee Camps in Lebanon', in Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin (eds.), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestine and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, (Berghahn Books, 2002), pp. 56-71.
75. Halleh Ghorashi 'Shifting and Conflicting Identities: Iranian Women Political Activists in Exile' European Journal of Women's Studies, 1997, 4, 3, Aug., pp. 283-303.
76. Azizah Yahia al-Hibri 'Mulsim Women's Rights in the Global Village: Challenges And Opportunities' Journal of Law & Religion, Vol 15, 2000-01, pp. 37-66.
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