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Muslim Women's Choices: Religious Belief and Social Reality edited by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 12Publication details: Providence, R.I. : Berg, 1994.Description: x, 206 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0854968350 (cased)
  • 0854968369
Uniform titles:
  • English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 1170 .M848 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction : Islam and muslim women / Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro -- Separation and reconciliation : marital conflict among the Muslim poor in Cairo / Helen Watson -- Strategies of selection : differing notions of marriage in Iran and Morocco / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Islam and gender : the Nigerian case / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- Separate but more than equal : Muslim women at the Cape / Rosemary Ridd -- Mixed motives : Islam, nationalism and mevluds in an unstable Yugoslavia / Cornelia Sorabji -- "Guardians of the faith?" : gender and religion in an (ex) Soviet Tajik village / Gillian Tett -- Islam in Azerbaijan : the position of women / Tamara Dragadze -- Women's labour in the Bangladesh garment industry : choices and constraints / Naila Kabeer -- Gender relations and Islamic resurgence in Mindanao, Southern Philippines / Jacqueline Siapno.

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