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Women, Islam, and the State edited by Deniz Kandiyoti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.Description: viii, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0877227861 (pbk.)
  • 0877227853
Uniform titles:
  • English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 1170 .W595 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: End of empire : Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Hazards of modernity and morality : women, state and ideology in contemporary Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- The convenience of subservience : women and the state of Pakistan / Ayesha Jalal -- The quest for national identity : women, Islam and the state of Bangladesh / Naila Kabeer -- Forced identities : the state, communalism, fundamentalism and women in India / Amrita Chhachhi -- Elite strategies for state building : women, family, religion and the state in Iraq and Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- Competing agenda : feminists, Islam and the state in 19th and 20th century Egypt / Margot Badran -- The law, the state and socialist policies with regard to women : the case of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen 1967-1990 / Maxine Molyneux.

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