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In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey Paperback - 1998
by Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock
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- Title In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
- Author Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor, New York
- Date 1998-11-10
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0385488580
- ISBN 9780385488587 / 0385488580
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.32 x 1.01 in (20.47 x 13.51 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Muslim women - Islamic countries, Women in Islam - Islamic countries
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.486
From the jacket flap
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. 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 Israel, 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 feminism. "In Search of Islamic Feminism offers a groundbreaking new interpretation of the status and vision of Muslim women that will open up a new world to its readers, even as it challenges our own sense of what feminism means.
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 Israel, 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 feminism. "In Search of Islamic Feminism offers a groundbreaking new interpretation of the status and vision of Muslim women that will open up a new world to its readers, even as it challenges our own sense of what feminism means.
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- New York Times, 12/30/2001, Page 16