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8 booksIslam and gender ×250 pages and over ×
Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
Questions the rescue narratives used to justify war and intervention in the name of Muslim women.
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.
