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11 booksIslam and gender ×
Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
Fatima Mernissi
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A pioneering study of sexuality, space and power between women and men in Morocco and Muslim thought.
Questions the rescue narratives used to justify war and intervention in the name of Muslim women.
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
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Makes the case for secular feminist politics in Pakistan against the scholarly turn to religious agency.
Haideh Moghissi
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A critique of scholarship that treats Islamist movements as good for women, drawing on Iran after 1979.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
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Clerics in Qom debate women's rights, and what these debates show about the possibilities of Islamic feminism.
A history of Palestinian women's organising from the first intifada to the rise of Islamist women's movements.
Saba Mahmood
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An ethnography of the women's mosque movement in Cairo that challenges liberal feminist ideas of agency.
A doctor's searing account of women's bodies, sexuality and oppression in the Arab world, including female genital cutting.
A history of women in Islamic societies from the ancient Middle East to modern Egypt.
Essays comparing how states in Muslim-majority countries, from Turkey to Bangladesh, have shaped women's lives.
