Muslim Women on the Move

Muslim Women on the Move
Author: Doris H. Gray
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Muslim Women on the Move offers a comparison of two Muslim populations that to date have not been compared in this way. Author Doris Gray compares the personal views of young educated women in Morocco with those of young educated women of Moroccan immigrant origins in France. She conducted extensive personal interviews, loosely structured around three main themes, over a period of three years in Morocco and in France. The three thematic groups are: conceptions of the religion of Islam, legal changes affecting women in Morocco and Muslim women in France, and personal and professional goals and challenges. This book challenges the conventional dichotomy between the Western and the Muslim world. Voices of a select group of individuals from each of these very different countries show that despite their different national circumstances, they have much more in common than is conventionally assumed. Gray summarizes individual perceptions and puts them into the larger context of Muslim women and their particular circumstances in the two Western Mediterranean countries. Muslim Women on the Move will interest students and scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Women's Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Religious Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, and Anthropology of Religion.

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Author: Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674726332

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Muslim Women on the Move

Muslim Women on the Move
Author: Doris H. Gray
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780739118054

This book offers a comparison of two Muslim populations that to date have not been compared in this way. The personal views of young, educated women in Morocco are compared with those of young, educated women of Moroccan immigrant origins in France.

Women and Gender in Islam

Women and Gender in Islam
Author: Jin Xu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300257317

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

Muslim Women in America

Muslim Women in America
Author: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2006-03-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195177835

Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.

Voices of Resistance

Voices of Resistance
Author: Sarah Husain
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006-06-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781580051811

A diverse collection of personal and political narratives and prose by Muslim women includes pieces by writers from a wide range of cultures and includes such tales as a woman's remembrance of a beloved cousin killed in a suicide bombing, a transsexual who remembers the veil he no longer wears, and a woman's confrontation of sexism and hypocrisy on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Original.

Muslim American Women on Campus

Muslim American Women on Campus
Author: Shabana Mir
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1469610787

Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity

Muslim Women in the Economy

Muslim Women in the Economy
Author: Shamim Samani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429558244

This book explores the changing role of Muslim women in the economy in the twenty-first century. Sociological developments such as secular education, female-focused policies, national and global commitments to gender equality as well as contemporary technological advances have all served to shift and redefine the domestic and public roles of Muslim women, leading in many places to increases in workplace participation ​and entrepreneurship. The volume investigates the contexts of these shifts and the experiences of women balancing faith and other commitments to actively engage in the economy in vastly different countries. The book looks at how family codes and the understandings of Muslim male and female roles sit alongside social and economic advances and the increases in women partaking in the economy. ​Within a globalised world, it also highlights the importance of the implementation of the current sustainable development priorities in the context of Muslim societies, including Sustainable Development Goal 5 that focuses on the vital role of women and their full participation in all areas of sustainable development. With cases ranging from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bangladesh, ​Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya through to Spain, Bulgaria​ and Australia, Muslim Women in the Economy will be of considerable interest to those studying, researching and interested in gender, development and religious studies.

Books-In-Brief: Rethinking Muslim Women & The Veil

Books-In-Brief: Rethinking Muslim Women & The Veil
Author: Katherine Bullock
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1565643585

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone about veiled women, assuming that they are making uninformed decisions choices about veiling makes them subservient to a patriarchal culture and religion. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” offers an alternative viewpoint, based on the thoughts and experiences of Muslim women themselves. This is the first time a clear and concise book-length argument has been made for the compatibility between veiling and modernity. Katherine Bullock uncovers positive aspects of the veil that are frequently not perceived by outsiders. “Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil” looks at the colonial roots of the negative Western stereotype of the veil. It presents interviews with Muslim women to discover their thoughts and experiences with the veil in Canada. The book also offers a positive theory of veiling. The author argues that in consumer capitalist cultures, women can find wearing the veil a liberation from the stifling beauty game that promotes unsafe and unhealthy ideal body images for women. This book also includes an extensive bibliography on topics related to Muslim women and the veil.