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Klappentext This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally. Zusammenfassung This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - ISLAM IN WOMEN'S LIVES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DAILY REALITIES - Development Studies and Women in the Middle East, the Way Forward; H.Afshar - Western Invention on Arab Womanhood: the Oriental Woman; M.Mehdid - Women in Every Day Religious Discourse in Iran; Z.Kamalkhani - The Sharia Marriage and Marital Relations in Iran; Z.Mir-Hoseini - Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries; I.Papps - Female Labour and Female Power in Two Contrasting Regions of the Iranian Province of Kerman; S.Razavi - THE STRUGGLES FOR LIBERATION - Women in the Middle East, an Overview; N.A.Sadaawi - The Saddam Hussein Phenomenon and Male-Female Relations in the Arab World; G.Karmi - The Interrogation of Women 'Security' Detainees by the Israeli; T.Thornhill - Populism and Feminism in Iran; H.Moghissi - Networking and Struggles of Women Living under Muslim Laws Peace Movement; M.A.Helie-Lucas - Index
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Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - ISLAM IN WOMEN'S LIVES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DAILY REALITIES - Development Studies and Women in the Middle East, the Way Forward; H.Afshar - Western Invention on Arab Womanhood: the Oriental Woman; M.Mehdid - Women in Every Day Religious Discourse in Iran; Z.Kamalkhani - The Sharia Marriage and Marital Relations in Iran; Z.Mir-Hoseini - Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries; I.Papps - Female Labour and Female Power in Two Contrasting Regions of the Iranian Province of Kerman; S.Razavi - THE STRUGGLES FOR LIBERATION - Women in the Middle East, an Overview; N.A.Sadaawi - The Saddam Hussein Phenomenon and Male-Female Relations in the Arab World; G.Karmi - The Interrogation of Women 'Security' Detainees by the Israeli; T.Thornhill - Populism and Feminism in Iran; H.Moghissi - Networking and Struggles of Women Living under Muslim Laws Peace Movement; M.A.Helie-Lucas - Index
