Women Claim Islam

Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92554-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooke, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Arab Women’s Literary History; Chapter 2 In Search of Mother Tongues; Chapter 3 Reviewing Beginnings; Chapter 4 A Muslim Sister; Chapter 5 Multiple Critique; Chapter 6 Changing the Subject; Conclusion Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Cooke is Professor and Director of Asian and African Languages and Literatures at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the War Story (1997) and Gendering War Talk (1993), and co-editor of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990).