Name: Women, Islam and the State
ISBN: 978-1-349-21178-4

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Deniz Kandiyoti (Senior Lecturer)⁰

Deniz Kandiyoti
1. Richmond College, London, UK
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-viii

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Introduction
- Deniz Kandiyoti
Pages 1-21
End of Empire: Islam, Nationalism and Women in Turkey
- Deniz Kandiyoti
Pages 22-47
Hazards of Modernity and Morality: Women, State and Ideology in Contemporary Iran
- Afsaneh Najmabadi
Pages 48-76
The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan
- Ayesha Jalal
Pages 77-114
The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh
- Naila Kabeer
Pages 115-143
Forced Identities: the State, Communalism, Fundamentalism and Women in India
- Amrita Chhachhi
Pages 144-175
Elite Strategies for State-Building: Women, Family, Religion and State in Iraq and Lebanon
- Suad Joseph
Pages 176-200
Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt
- Margot Badran
Pages 201-236
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
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Pages 272-276

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About this book

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.

Keywords

fundamentalism
Islam
national identity
nationalism
women

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Richmond College, London, UK

Deniz Kandiyoti

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Book Title: Women, Islam and the State
Editors: Deniz Kandiyoti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21178-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-52696-5Published: 01 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21178-4Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 276
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Political Science, Islam

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Front Matter

Back Matter

About this book

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

Richmond College, London, UK

Bibliographic Information

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