Nothing Sacred Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism

Name: Nothing Sacred Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terrorism
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ISBN: 9781560254508

ISBN-10: 1560254505

ISBN-13: 9781560254508

Edition: 2002

Authors: Betsy Reed, Katha Pollitt

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Long before the Bush Administration took notice of the Taliban's brutal treatment of Afghan women, feminist activists and scholars were sounding an alarm about the rise of religious fundamentalism throughout the world and its deadly consequences for women. Yet women's voices have been conspicuously absent from the debate over the new war on terror. Nothing Sacred breaks this silence, drawing together an array of feminist responses to religious fundamentalism -- before and after September 11. How is fundamentalism linked to discrimination and violence against women in such countries as Algeria, Iran, Israel, India and America? Is there a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Rory Dicker is Assistant Professor of English at Westminster College. She lives in Columbia, Missouri. Alison Piepmeier is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for 'The Nation.' Jennifer Baumgardner writes for various magazines, including 'Ms,' 'Harper's,' and 'Elle,' and is the coauthor (with Amy Richards) of 'Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.'



Editor's Note


Introduction


Fundamentalisms


The War on Women


Fundamentalism


World Culture War


The Burden of Eve: Religious Fundamentalism and Women in Israel


The Battle For Islam


The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism


"A Disease Masquerading as a Cure": Women and Fundamentalism in Algeria. An Interview with Mahfoud Bennoune


The Two Faces of Iran: Woman's Activism, the Reform Movement and the Islamic Republic


Gender and Literacy in Islam


Missing in Action


Muslim Women and Fundamentalism


A Culture of One's Own: Learning from Women Living Under Muslim Laws


Understanding the Other Sister: The Case of Arab Feminism


South Asia's Holy Wars


Fascism's Firm Footprint in India


Gujarat's Gendered Violence


Hindu Women's Activism in India and the Questions It Raises


An Interview with Taslima Nasrin


Religion, Culture, and Sex Equality: India and the United States


Christian Soldiers


Unholy Alliance and Giving the Vatican the Boot


Christian Wahhabists


Fundamentalism and the Family: Gender, Culture, and the American Pro-Family Movement


The Pro-Life Gospel


The Church's Tug of War


The Agony Of Afghanistan


What Women Want


Behind the Burqa


After the Taliban


An Uneasy Peace


Returning from Kabul


Women for Afghan Women: Building Community Across Difference


Responding To Terror


Phantom Towers: Feminist Reflections on the Battle Between Global Capitalism and Fundamentalist Terrorism


Bringing the Holy War Home


Why Gender Matters in Understanding September 11: Women, Militarism, and Violence


Whose Fundamentalism?


Unholy Wars


Women's Human Rights and Security in the Age of Terror


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