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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811076303321

Autore

Uthman Ibrahim Olatunde

Titolo

Feminist insiders-outsiders [[electronic resource] ] : Muslim women in Nigeria and the contemporary feminist movement / / by Ibrahim Olatunde Uthman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-41465-8

9786612414657

1-4438-1567-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

305.4869709669

Soggetti

Muslim women - Nigeria

Muslim women - Nigeria - Social conditions

Muslim women - Political activity - Nigeria

Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam

Feminism - Nigeria

Feminism - Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239).

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines different brand of women's feminist struggles and focuses on the struggles of Muslim women who are insiders in the Islamic Movement, as represented in Nigerian Muslim women's Islamic activism. Drawing on different secular-Islamic Gender feminist theoretical frameworks, the book closely analyses Islamic texts and these Muslim women brand of feminism, which reflect the effects of their strong Islamic commitment culture on their gender relations, postulations and feminist stru...