Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
by Miriam Cooke
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This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.Tags
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Women in Islam
120 works; 8 members
Books on Islamic Feminism
43 works; 1 member
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20+ Works 297 Members
Miriam Cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and author of several books, most recently Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer (2010).
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.486971 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women Women and religion
- LCC
- HQ1170 .C75 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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