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Women, Islam and the State

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Deniz Kandiyoti

    1. Richmond College, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Deniz Kandiyoti
    Pages 1-21

  3. End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey

    • Deniz Kandiyoti
    Pages 22-47

  4. Hazards of Modernity and Morality: Women, State and Ideology in Contemporary Iran

    • Afsaneh Najmabadi
    Pages 48-76

  5. The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan

    • Ayesha Jalal
    Pages 77-114

  6. The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh

    • Naila Kabeer
    Pages 115-143

  7. Forced Identities: the State, Communalism, Fundamentalism and Women in India

    • Amrita Chhachhi
    Pages 144-175

  8. Elite Strategies for State-Building: Women, Family, Religion and State in Iraq and Lebanon

    • Suad Joseph
    Pages 176-200

  9. Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt

    • Margot Badran
    Pages 201-236

  10. The Law, the State and Socialist Policies with Regard to Women; the Case of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen 1967–1990

    • Maxine Molyneux
    Pages 237-271

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 272-276
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Political projects of modern nation-states, the specificities of their nationalist histories and the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis diverse nationalisms are addressed in this volume with respect to their implications and consequences for women through a series of case studies.

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  • Richmond College, London, UK

    Deniz Kandiyoti

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