Geographies of Muslim women : gender, religion, and space / edited by Ghazi-Walid Falah & Caroline Nagel.

Other author Falah, Ghazi-Walid.
Other author Nagel, Caroline Rose.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : The Guilford Press, ©2005.
Descriptionvii, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Growing up in Gilgit: exploring the nature of girlhood in northern Pakistan / Sarah J. Halvorson -- (Re)defining public spaces through developmental education for Afghan women / Naheed Gina Aaftaab -- A space of her own: women, work, and desire in an Afghan nomad community / Diana K. Davis -- Changing identities and changing spaces in village landscapes of settled pastoralists in eastern Morocco / Susanne H. Steinmann -- Transnational Islam: Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- Moral geographies and women's freedom: rethinking freedom discourse in the Moroccan context / Amy Freeman -- Negotiating spaces of the home, the education system and the labor market: the case of young, working-class, British Pakistani Muslim women / Robina Mohammad -- Islamism, democracy, and the political production of the headscarf issue in Turkey / Anna Secor -- Social transformation and Islamic reinterpretation in northern Somalia: the women's mosque in Gabiley / Abdi Ismail Samatar -- Contesting space: gendered discourse and labor among Lebanese women / Malek Abisaab -- Writing place and gender in novels by Tunisian women / Marc Brosseau and Leila Ayari -- The visual representation of Muslim/Arab women in daily newspapers in the United States / Ghazi-Walid Falah.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004028841
ISBN1572301341 (pbk.)
ISBN1593851839 (cloth)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1170 .G44 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold