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On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era
Contributor(s): Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh (Editor)
ISBN: 1558618554     ISBN-13: 9781558618558
Publisher: Feminist Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- Political Science | Censorship
Dewey: 305.486
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 8.5" (0.88 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - Arab World
- Ethnic Orientation - Arabic
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
 
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Publisher Description:

"Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).

The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more than in the Middle East and Muslim worlds. And no one within those worlds has been more affected than women, who face new and vital questions.

Has Arab Spring made life better for Muslim women? Has new media empowered feminists or is it simply a tool of the opposition? Will the newfound freedoms of Middle Eastern women grow or be taken away by yet more oppressive regimes?

This "provocative volume" has been updated with a new introduction and two new essays, offering insider views on how Muslim women are navigating technology, social media, public space, the tension between secularism and fundamentalism, and the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship (Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, UCLA).