Gender and Islam in Africa : rights, sexuality, and law /
Gender and Islam in Africa : rights, sexuality, and law /
edited by Margot Badran
- x, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muslim women's knowledge production in the greater Maghreb: the example of Nana Asmaʼu of Northern Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack -- Rethinking marginality and agency in postcolonial Niger: a social biography of a Sufi woman scholar / Ousseina D. Alidou -- Deconstructing Islamic feminism: a look at Fatima Mernissi / Raja Rhouni -- Embodied tafsir: South African Muslim women confront gender violence in marriage / Saʼdiyyah Shaikh -- Changing conceptions of moral womanhood in Somali popular songs, 1960-1990 / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Guidelines for the ideal mu slim woman: gender ideology and practice in the Tabligh Jamaʻat in the Gambia / Marloes Janson -- Titanic in Kano: video, gender, and Islam / Heike Behrend -- Shariʻa activism and Zina in Nigeria in the era of hudud / Margot Badran -- Women and men put Islamic law to their own use: monogamy versus secret marriage in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier -- Islam, gender, and democracy in Morocco: the making of the mudawana reform / Julie E. Pruzan-Jørgensen -- Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes / Benjamin F. Soares -- Legal recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa / Rashida Manjoo.
9780804774819 (hardback) 0804774811 (hardback)
2011004127
Muslim women--Africa
Muslim women--Political activity--Africa
Women in Islam--Africa
Feminism--Islamic perspectives
Muslim women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muslim women's knowledge production in the greater Maghreb: the example of Nana Asmaʼu of Northern Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack -- Rethinking marginality and agency in postcolonial Niger: a social biography of a Sufi woman scholar / Ousseina D. Alidou -- Deconstructing Islamic feminism: a look at Fatima Mernissi / Raja Rhouni -- Embodied tafsir: South African Muslim women confront gender violence in marriage / Saʼdiyyah Shaikh -- Changing conceptions of moral womanhood in Somali popular songs, 1960-1990 / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Guidelines for the ideal mu slim woman: gender ideology and practice in the Tabligh Jamaʻat in the Gambia / Marloes Janson -- Titanic in Kano: video, gender, and Islam / Heike Behrend -- Shariʻa activism and Zina in Nigeria in the era of hudud / Margot Badran -- Women and men put Islamic law to their own use: monogamy versus secret marriage in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier -- Islam, gender, and democracy in Morocco: the making of the mudawana reform / Julie E. Pruzan-Jørgensen -- Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes / Benjamin F. Soares -- Legal recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa / Rashida Manjoo.
9780804774819 (hardback) 0804774811 (hardback)
2011004127
Muslim women--Africa
Muslim women--Political activity--Africa
Women in Islam--Africa
Feminism--Islamic perspectives
Muslim women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Africa, Sub-Saharan