Women claim Islam : creating Islamic feminism through literature

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    • Cooke, Miriam

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Women claim Islam : creating Islamic feminism through literature

Miriam Cooke

Routledge, 2001

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166) and index

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Volume

ISBN 9780415925532

Description

This text presents the literature of contemporary Islamic feminist authors, and analyzes their strategies for self-definition and self-empowerment. Illustrating the tremendous strides that Arab women have made towards independence since the 1970s, it seeks to shatter prevailing stereotypes. It also provides an alternative feminist understanding of recent, significant events such as the Gulf War. Miriam Cooke brings to a wide audience a multitude of voices that need to be heard. She opens the floodgates on women's Islamic literature, featuring writers like Assia Djebar, Nawal El Saadawi, Fatima Mernissi, and Zaynab al-Ghazali.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction 1. Arab Women's Literary History: critical response
  • the Gulf War story
  • gendering the War Story
  • the Iraqi version
  • migrating stories
  • conclusion 2. In Search of Mother Tongues: Assia Djebar's prisonhouse
  • Albert Memmi's struggles with his mother
  • Abdelkebir Khatibi's bi-langue
  • Jacques Derrida: le petit juif francais d'Algerie
  • conclusion 3. Reviewing Beginnings: Islamic feminism
  • Assia Djebar
  • Fatima Mernissi
  • Nawal El Saadawi
  • conclusion 4. A Muslim Sister: Zaynab al-Ghazali's Muslim Ladies' Association
  • survival in hell
  • signs taken for wonders
  • an islamic feminist mission
  • conclusion 5. Multiple Critique: critical networking
  • imageness
  • the weight of the veil
  • conclusion 6. Changing the Subject. Conclusion. Cited Works
Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780415925549

Description

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Arab Women's Literary History
  • Chapter 2 In Search of Mother Tongues
  • Chapter 3 Reviewing Beginnings
  • Chapter 4 A Muslim Sister
  • Chapter 5 Multiple Critique
  • Chapter 6 Changing the Subject
  • Conclusion Conclusion

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