Paradise Beneath Her Feet How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

Name: Paradise Beneath Her Feet How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780812978551

ISBN-10: 0812978552

ISBN-13: 9780812978551

Edition: 2013

Authors: Isobel Coleman

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Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. InParadise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.In this timely book, Coleman journeys through the strategic crescent of the greater Middle East—Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan—to reveal how activists are working within the tenets of…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.76" wide x 8.11" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.594



Preface


Introduction






Why Women Matter: The Payoff from Women's Rights



Gender Jihad: The Rise of Islamic Feminism






Revolutionary Sisters: Iran



Under the Crescent Moon: Pakistan



Redirecting Jihad: Afghanistan



Channeling Khadijah: Saudi Arabia



Daughters of Zainab: Iraq



Conclusion: Unveiling the Future


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Notes


Index