Overview
""Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women"" (Nikki Keddie, author ofWomen in the Middle East: Past and Present). The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more than in the Middle East and Muslim worlds. And no one within those worlds has been more affected than women, who face new and vital questions. Has Arab Spring made life better for Muslim women? Has new media empowered feminists or is it simply a tool of the opposition? Will the newfound freedoms of Middle Eastern women grow or be taken away by yet more oppressive regimes? This ""provocative volume"" has been updated with a new introduction and two new essays, offering insider views on how Muslim women are navigating technology, social media, public space, the tension between secularism and fundamentalism, and the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship (Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, UCLA).
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Author: Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Edition: Revised Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.407kg
ISBN: 9781558618558
ISBN 10: 1558618554
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 28 August 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This provocative volume will inform scholars, teachers and students about contemporary trends in Muslim societies...Those interested in new developments in gender studies and the study of women and Islam will appreciate this useful volume. - Lois Beck, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University, author of The Qashqa'i of Iran Featured are such relevant topics as women's roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women's ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women's transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today. -Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles This provocative volume will inform scholars, teachers and students about contemporary trends in Muslim societiesThose interested in new developments in gender studies and the study of women and Islam will appreciate this useful volume. Lois Beck, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University, author of The Qashqa i of Iran Featured are such relevant topics as women s roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women s ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women s transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today. Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles
This provocative volume will inform scholars, teachers and students about contemporary trends in Muslim societies...Those interested in new developments in gender studies and the study of women and Islam will appreciate this useful volume. - Lois Beck, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University, author of The Qashqa'i of Iran Featured are such relevant topics as women's roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women's ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women's transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today. -Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles
This provocative volume will inform scholars, teachers and students about contemporary trends in Muslim societies...Those interested in new developments in gender studies and the study of women and Islam will appreciate this useful volume. - Lois Beck, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University, author of The Qashqa'i of Iran Featured are such relevant topics as women's roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women's ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women's transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today. -Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles This provocative volume will inform scholars, teachers and students about contemporary trends in Muslim societiesThose interested in new developments in gender studies and the study of women and Islam will appreciate this useful volume. Lois Beck, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University, author of The Qashqa i of Iran Featured are such relevant topics as women s roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women s ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women s transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today. Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles
Author Information
Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International Service. She teaches courses on gender and social change in the Middle East, Iran, and the history of US-Iran relations.
