| Description |
vii, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents |
Growing up in Gilgit: exploring the nature of girlhood in northern Pakistan / Sarah J. Halvorson -- (Re)defining public spaces through developmental education for Afghan women / Naheed Gina Aaftaab -- Space of her own: women, work, and desire in an Afghan nomad community / Diana K. Davis -- Changing identities and changing spaces in village landscapes of settled pastoralists in eastern Morocco / Susanne H. Steinmann -- Transnational Islam: Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- Moral geographies and women's freedom: rethinking freedom discourse in the Moroccan context / Amy Freeman -- Negotiating spaces of the home, the education system and the labor market: the case of young, working-class, British Pakistani Muslim women / Robina Mohammad -- Islamism, democracy, and the political production of the headscarf issue in Turkey / Anna Secor -- Social transformation and Islamic reinterpretation in northern Somalia: the women's mosque in Gabiley / Abdi Ismail Samatar -- Contesting space: gendered discourse and labor among Lebanese women / Malek Abisaab -- Writing place and gender in novels by Tunisian women / Marc Brosseau and Leila Ayari -- Visual representation of Muslim/Arab women in daily newspapers in the United States / Ghazi-Walid Falah. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Islamic countries.
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Human geography.
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| Added Author |
Falah, Ghazi-Walid.
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Nagel, Caroline Rose.
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| ISBN |
1572301341 (pbk.) |
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9781572301344 (pbk.) |
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1593851839 (cloth) |
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9781593851835 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 27210616X |
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YDXCP 2189330 |
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