Gender, Identity, and Islam An Overview

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K. Luisa Gandolfo

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Books Reviewed: Valentine M. Moghadam, ed., From Patriarchy to Empowerment:
Women’s Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East,
North Africa, and South Asia. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2007; Ida Lichter, Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices against
Oppression. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009; Wahida Shaffi, ed.,
Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’s Voices. Bristol, UK: The
Policy Press for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009.
The realm of gender studies is rife with potential research foci: to comprise
the geographical, political, and ethical breadth that spans North Africa to
South Asia, war novels and Iranian cinema to dowries and hudud is, then,
a veritable feat. Assuming the concept of patriarchy as the nexus from
which to assess the multidimensional subjugation of women within the
political, socioeconomic, and ethnic spheres, Valentine M. Moghadam
affords a sweeping, yet insightful, collection of nineteen articles originating
from the “Women in the Global Community” conference hosted in Istanbul
by the Fulbright Commission in September 2002 ...

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