TY - GEN AU - Badran,Margot TI - Gender and Islam in Africa: rights, sexuality, and law SN - 9780804774819 (hardback) PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, D.C. : Stanford, Calif. PB - Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press KW - Muslim women KW - Africa KW - Political activity KW - Women in Islam KW - Feminism KW - Islamic perspectives KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan N1 - 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 ER -