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Women, religion, and social change

Author: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad; Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1985.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad; Ellison Banks Findly
ISBN: 0887060684 9780887060687 0887060692 9780887060694
OCLC Number: 11841686
Notes: Proceedings of the Hartford Symposium on Women, Religion, and Social Change.
Description: xxi, 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Separation of women in rabbinic Judaism / Judith Baskin --
Women, religion and social change in early Islam / Jane I. Smith --
Gārgī at the king's court: women and philosophic innovation in ancient India / Ellison Banks Findly --
Nuns and benefactresses: the role of women in the development of Buddhism / Janice D. Willis --
Striking a balance: women and images of women in early Chinese Buddhism / Nancy Schuster --
Magdalen: reflections on the image of the saint and sinner in Christian art / Jane Dillenberger --
Women and Islamic art / Walter B. Denny --
Hindu paradigms of women: images and values / Sandra P. Robinson --
Images and roles of women in Bengali Vaisnava padāvalī kīrtan / Donna Marie Wulff --
Sacred paradoxes: women and religious plurality in Nigeria / Rosalind I.J. Hackett --
Islam, women and revolution in twentieth-century Arab thought / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad --
Woman's place and the place of women in the Iranian revolution / William R. Darrow --
Religious aspects of women's role in the Nicaraguan revolution / Pauline Turner --
Goddesses, mothers, and heroines: Hindu women and the feminine in the early nationalist movement / Lou Ratté --
Soong sisters and China's revolutions, 1911-1936 / Michael E. Lestz --
Iroquois religion and women in historical perspective / Annemarie A. Shimony --
Spirits defend the rights of women: spiritualism and changing sex roles in nineteenth-century America / Ann D. Braude --
From shackles to liberation: religion, the Grimké sisters and dissent / Frank G. Kirkpatrick --
American Catholic bishops and woman: from the Nineteenth Amendment to ERA / Antoinette Iadarola --
Feminism and the reevaluation of women's roles within American Jewish life / Ellen M. Umansky.
Responsibility: edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Ellison Banks Findly.

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