In a time of increasing hostility towards Islam, this collection extends the boundaries of global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim women as victims of Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, these groundbreaking essays focus on the complex relations of power that shape women's negotiations for identity, power, and agency as participants in religious, cultural and nationalist movements. This book brings together Signs essays on women in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Diaspora, from Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Yemen to explore how women negotiate indigenous identities and attempt to gain political, economic, and legal rights. This collection shows that Islam is a heterogeneous set of historically and contexually variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, nation, ethnicity, sect, and class, as well as by responses to local and transnational cultural and economic processes. In examining women's participation in religious and nationalist projects, these critics debate controversial issues: Does Islamic feminism provide an alternative, possibly revolutionary paradigm, to Eurocentric liberal humanism and the individualism of western feminism? Is Islam any more oppressive to women than the workings of the modern secular state? How are the lives and texts of Arab and Muslim women discursively constructed for local or western consumption? These essays expose the shortcomings of the secularist assumptions of many recent feminist analyses, which continue to treat religion in general and fundamentalism in particular as a problematic tool of oppression used against women, rather than as a viable form of feminist agency that produces contradictory effects for women participants.
Examines technology's effect on the role of women, looks at the increased opportunities for women after the turn of the century, and discusses the suffrage movement.
Chinese edition of "Three Guineas"by Virginia Woolf.
Hilary McPhee's Other People's Words is another recent feminist autobiography . It is not primarily an account of an activist's life within the women's movement as such , so is therefore outside the scope of this study .
Telling Tales: Short Stories
Our Hero Has Bad Breath
Presents nineteen early stories by Louisa May Alcott, the nineteenth-century writer famous for "Little Women," including several thrillers that she kept from being republished in her lifetime.
The Politics of Women's Mobilization in the United States: Resources, Opportunities and Political Process
See also editors Katharine Meyer Graham 105–106 Eleanor Medill Patterson 200 Gloria Steinem 241–242 Puck (statue) 118 Pugh, Sarah 285 Puritan doctrine 121 Putnam, George P. 76 Q 414 INDEX R race issues. See also civil rights in.
367–401 ; Frank Stafford and Greg Duncan , “ The Use of Time and Technology by Households in the United States , ” working paper ( Ann Arbor : University of Michigan , ISR , 1977 ) ; John P. Robinson , “ Changes in American's Use of ...
Eighteenth Century Women Playwrights: Susanna Centlivre