By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith,Kathleen M. Moore
ISBN-10: 0195177835
ISBN-13: 9780195177831
ISBN-10: 0199793344
ISBN-13: 9780199793341
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore provide a much-needed survey of the location of Muslim American ladies, targeting how Muslim perspectives approximately and studies of gender are altering within the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in the United States, the booklet investigates Muslim makes an attempt to shape a brand new "American" Islam. Such particular concerns as gown, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and office discrimination are addressed. The authors additionally examine the ways that American Muslim girls have attempted to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions except the men who regulate the mosque associations. a last bankruptcy asks even if 11th of September will turn out to were a watershed second for Muslim ladies in America.
This groundbreaking paintings offers the range of Muslim American girls and demonstrates the complexity of the problems. Impeccably researched and available, it broadens our knowing of Islam within the West and encourages additional exploration into how Muslim girls are shaping the way forward for American Islam.
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