Women, Islam and the State (Women In The Political Economy)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877227861 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The contributors focus, instead, on the effects of the political projects of states on the lives of women.. Arguing that Islam is not uniform across Muslim societies and that women’s roles in these societies cannot be understood simply by looking at texts and laws. This collection of original essays examines the relationship between Islam, the nature of state projects, and the position of women in the modern nation states of the Middle East and South Asia
"The most significant theoretical advance in Muslim-world women's studies for years."—Voice Literary Supplement
Riham Saleh said State policies and women in the Middle east. The book insists that women in the Middle Eat must be studie through the differing plitical projects on nation-sate, with their distinct histories, relatioship to colonialism and the West, class politics, ideological uses of an Islamic idiom, and struggles over the roleof Islamic law in state