In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey - Brossura

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

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ISBN 10: 0385488580 ISBN 13: 9780385488587

Casa editrice: Anchor, 1998

Riassunto

Visiting Islamic communities in Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, a professor of Arab studies demonstrates the flourishing of literacy, property ownership, professionalism, and independence among Arab women, Reprint.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and her husband, Robert Fernea, traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing Guests of the Sheik, her first book, she wrote The Arab World with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco. She also made five films about the lives of Arab women. She died in 2008.

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c feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now, traveling throughout Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Islamic communities in the United States, acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author Elizabeth Fernea sets out to answer that question.

Fernea's dialogue with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances prompts a range of diverse and unpredictable responses, but in every country she visits, women demonstrate they are anything but passive. In Iraq, we see an 85 percent literacy rate among women; in Egypt, we see women owning their own farms; and in Israel, we see women at the very forefront of peacemaking efforts. Poor or rich, educated or illiterate, these women define their own needs, solve their own problems, and det

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• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385488580
• ISBN 13: 9780385488587
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464