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... BOOK REVIEWS  Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures I: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xlix+632. US$326. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures II...

...Hina Azam References cooke miriam . 1997 . Women and the War Story . Berkeley : University of California Press . cooke miriam . 2001 . Women Claim Islam . New York : Routledge . In light of my shifting understanding and implementation of Islamic feminism, I have...

...Indira Falk Gesink Abstract Sexuality scholarship demonstrates the historical production of the male/female sexual binary in scientific discourse. While some scholars have applied the insights of this scholarship to modern Islamic contexts, studies on intersex persons ( khuntha ) in premodern...

...Shayna Silverstein Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia , Rasmussen Anne K. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . 312 pages. ISBN: 978-0520-25549-4 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2012...

...Hina Azam The American Muslim landscape is suffused with mosque bookstores, independent book distributors, online retailers, and convention stalls offering English-speaking Muslims Islamic advice texts on a wide array of topics. Common among these popularly oriented writings are titles pertaining...

...Michelle Hartman Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism , cooke miriam . Oxford : Oneworld , 2010 . 137 pages. ISBN 978-1-85168-769-5 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 book reviews  mn  133...

... norm and an “Islamic” right for the majority. Today most of the students in Iranian universities are women, and women’s access to the public sphere has expanded tremendously in every field. This essay is based on oral histories of twenty-one Iranian women who in the late 1980s and early 1990s were...

... of Islamic dimensions overlooks significant shifts in state power from prohibition to production. I explore how the Islamic Republic of Iran, which thirty years ago considered women’s outdoor exercise a problem, or even un-Islamic, now promotes it as a solution to women’s health problems. Nazanin...

...Amina Jamal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject , Mahmood Saba . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Pp. xvi, 233 . ISBN 9780691086958 . An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon , Deeb Lara . Princeton...

... (tesettür) in Turkey. Some leading tes- ettür-producing companies claim that their products are appropriately Islamic and serve the Islamicizing agenda. However, Gökarıksel and Secor argue that in fact “the fashion industry is actively shifting the frontiers and diversifying the realm...

...Carla Jones The recent and highly visible rise of Islamic consumer culture in contemporary urban Indonesia is a source of both pleasure and anxiety for many Indonesians, figuring in debates about the appeal of a new piety there in the past decade. At the center of these debates is the image...

...Banu Gökarıksel; Anna Secor Since the 1980s, fashionable Islamic dress for women, or tesettür, has become a growing segment of the textile industry in Turkey, yet its meaning and practice remain hotly contested. Through an analysis of the representation of these styles in company catalogs...

...Serdar Kaya Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism , Shirazi Faegheh . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-8130-3354-9 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 120  mn  JOURNAL...

..., entitled The Rise of the Commando Cop: Militarizing Global Police Cultures and Gendering the Force of Law . Islamic Masculinities , Ouzgane Lahoucine , ed. London : Zed Books , 2006 . 248 pages. ISBN 978-1-84277-275-1 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...

... of tensions between cosmopolitan Islamic feminism and secular nationalism. This essay describes how memoir (whether an actual memoir, such as The Turkish Ordeal , or a fictional memoir, such as The Shirt of Flame ) constructs the object of its knowledge (the feminist self), and furthermore, how the feminist...

...Laura Bier An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements , Hafez Sherine . New York; London : New York University Press , 2011 . 191 pages. ISBN 978-0-8147-7303 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013...

...Lihi Ben Shitrit Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement...

... and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article...

...Elyse Semerdjian Reference Sonbol Amira . 1996 . “ Law and Gender Violence in Ottoman and Modern Egypt .” In Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History , edited by Sonbol Amira , 277 – 89 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . This detailed volume...