Contents |
Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East -- Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam -- Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future. |
Abstract |
Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index. |
Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
Issued in other form | Print version: Ahmed, Leila. Women and gender in Islam. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [1992] 9780300049428 |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
Genre/form | History. |
ISBN | 9780300162714 (electronic bk.) |
ISBN | 0300162715 (electronic bk.) |
Stock number | 22573/ctt2zzxjn JSTOR |