Women in Islam

The Western Experience

Author: Anne Sofie Roald
ISBN: 9780415248969

Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible.

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Religion / Islam / General, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Sociology of Religion

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Middle Eastern)