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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Muslim women and the politics of participation. [Syracuse, NY] : Syracuse University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)654735755 |
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| Named Person: | Mahnaz Afkhami |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Erika Friedl |
| ISBN: | 0815627599 9780815627593 0815627602 9780815627609 |
| OCLC Number: | 37156268 |
| Notes: | This book is based in part on the proceedings of a conference which was convened by the Sisterhood Is Global Institute 9-11 May, 1996 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. |
| Description: | xxiii, 198 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Beyond Beijing : obstacles and prospects for the Middle East / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Fundamentalism and women's rights : lessons from the City of Women / Boutheina Cheriet -- Women, Islamisms, and state : dynamics of power and contemporary feminisms in Egypt / Azza M. Karam -- Aberrant "Islams" and errant daughters : the turbulent legacy of Beijing in Muslim societies / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Muslim women's Islamic higher learning as a human right : the action plan / Nimat Hafez Barazangi -- Imagination as subversion : narrative as a tool of civic awareness / Azar Nafisi -- Personal status codes and women's rights in the Maghreb / Fiat Ziai -- Leadership development for young women : a model / Sharifah Tahir -- The Women Studies Program in Palestine : between criticism and new vision / Eileen Kuttab -- Imperiled pioneer : an assessment of the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World / Laurie E. King-Irani -- Claiming our rights : a manual for women's human rights education in Muslim societies / Mahnaz Afkhami -- International human rights organizations and advocacy for change / Maryam Elahi -- International organizations, national machinery, Islam, and foreign policy / Mervat Tallawy --tMuslim law and women living under Muslim laws / Seema Kazi -- Gender equality and the World Bank / Roslyn G. Hees -- UNIFEM and Women's climb to equality : no turning back / Noeleen Heyzer and Ilana Landsberg-Lewis. |
| Series Title: | Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl. |
Abstract:
At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the international community accepted women's rights as human rights, and with it the charge to work toward the full integration of women in the affairs of their respective nations. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation is about ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising consciousness and changing codes of law to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies. Editors Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl challenge stereotypes about Muslim women and probe the difficulties and possibilities women face as they work for positive social change. Sixteen activists and politicians from international organizations - most from Muslim countriesdiscuss, for the first time, major issues relevant to Muslim women striving to achieve their human rights through political participation.
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- Muslim women.
- Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
- Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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- Islamieten.
- Participatie.
- Musulmanes.
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