| Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law Contributor(s): Badran, Margot (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804774811 ISBN-13: 9780804774819 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.486 |
| LCCN: 2011004127 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves and their societies. African women, it argues, have promoted the ideals and practices of equality, human rights, and democracy within the framework of Islamic thought, challenging conventional conceptualizations of the religion as gender-constricted and patriarchal. The contributors come from the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, gender studies, religious studies, and law. Their depictions of African women's interpreting and reinterpreting of Islam go back into the nineteenth century and up to today, including analyses of how cultural media such as popular song and film can communicate new gender roles in terms of sexuality and direct examinations of religious and religiously based family law and efforts to reform them. |