Islam, Gender, and Social Change

by Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck; Esposito, John L.

• ISBN13: 9780195113563
• ISBN10: 019511356X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction: Women in Islam and Muslim Societies	ix
John L. Esposito
ONE / ISLAM, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A RECONSTITUTED TRADITION	1	(56)
Islam and Gender: Dilemmas in the Changing Arab World	3	(27)
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Gender Issues and Contemporary Quran Interpretation	30	(15)
Barbara Stowasser
Islam, Social Change, and the Reality of Arab Women's Lives	45	(12)
Nadia Hijab
TWO / ISLAM, GENDER AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CHANGE: CASE STUDIES	57	(178)
Feminism in an Islamic Republic: ``Years of Hardship, Years of Growth,''	59	(26)
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Secularist and Islamist Discourses on Modernity in Egypt and the Evolution of the Postcolonial Nation-State	85	(15)
Mervat Hatem
Women and the State in Jordan: Inclusion or Exclusion?	100	(24)
Laurie A. Brand
The Slow Yet Steady Path to Women's Empowerment in Pakistan	124	(20)
Anita M. Weiss
Changing Gender Relations and the Development Process in Oman	144	(25)
Carol J. Riphenburg
Women and Religion in Bahrain: An Emerging Identity	169	(21)
May Seikaly
Gender, Islam, and the State: Kuwaiti Women in Struggle, Pre-Invasion to Postliberation	190	(19)
Margot Badran
Philippine Muslim Women: Tradition and Change	209	(26)
Vivienne SM. Angeles
Bibliography	235	(12)
Index	247