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Title:Gender and Islam in Africa: rights, sexuality, and law
Editor:Badran, MargotISNI
Chapter(s):Present
Year:2011
Pages:324
Language:English
City of publisher:Stanford, CA
Publisher:Stanford University Press
ISBN:0804774811; 9780804774819
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:Islam
women
Islamic law
Abstract:How have women in Africa interpreted traditional Islamic concepts to empower themselves and their societies? Twelve essays explore the answer to this question: Introduction: gender and Islam in Africa - rights, sexuality, and law (Margot Badran); Muslim women's knowledge production in the greater Maghreb: the example of Nana Asma'u of northern Nigeria by Beverly B. Mack; Rethinking marginality and agency in postcolonial Niger: a social biography of a Sufi woman scholar (Malama A'ishatu Hamani Zarmakoy Dancandu) by Ousseina D. Alidou; Deconstructing Islamic feminism: a look at Fatima Mernissi (Morocco) by Raja Rhouni; Embodied 'tafsir': South African Muslim women confront gender violence in marriage by Sa'diyya Shaikh; Changing conceptions of moral womanhood in Somali popular songs, 1960-1990 by Lidwien Kapteijns; Guidelines for the ideal Muslim woman: gender ideology and praxis in the Tabligh Jama'at in the Gambia by Marloes Janson; 'Titanic' in Kano (Nigeria): video, gender, and Islam by Heike Behrend; 'Shari'a' activism and 'zina' in Nigeria (Zamfara province) in the era of 'hudud' by Margot Badran; Women and men put Islamic laws to their own use: monogamy versus secret marriage in Mauritania by Corinne Fortier; Islam, gender, and democracy in Morocco: the making of the Mudawana reform by Julie E. Pruzan-Jørgensen; Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes by Benjamin F. Soares; and Legal recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa by Rashida Manjoo. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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