wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law
ISBN: 9780804774819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves and their societies. African women, it argues, have promoted the ideals and practices of equality, human rights, and democracy within the framework of Islamic thought, challenging conventional conceptualizations of the religion as gender-constricted and patriarchal. The contributors come from the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, gender studies, religious studies, and law. Their depictions of African women's interpreting and...
Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves ...
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323,45 zł |
Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
ISBN: 9780691026053 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half... The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide ra... |
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247,12 zł |
Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing
ISBN: 9780253217035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Praise for the first edition: "An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept." Booklist "Anyone interested in good writing should read Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning." Doris Lessing, The Independent "This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce... Praise for the first edition: "An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film script... |
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130,37 zł |
Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
ISBN: 9780935312706 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence and a critical understanding of the price of confinement. Shaarawi's feminist activism grew along with her involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle and culminated in 1923 in a...
In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls he...
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103,28 zł |
Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences
ISBN: 9781851685561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born of over two decades of work, this volume combines Margot Badran's writings from a variety of sources, both academic and popular, and explores the history of feminist movements in Islamic societies around the world.
Born of over two decades of work, this volume combines Margot Badran's writings from a variety of sources, both academic and popular, and explores the...
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213,18 zł |