Gender, religion and change in the Middle East : two hundred years of history / / edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud
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| Titolo: |
Gender, religion and change in the Middle East : two hundred years of history / / edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2005 |
| Edizione: | English ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3/0956/0904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Middle East |
| Women - Islamic countries | |
| Altri autori: |
OkkenhaugInger Marie
FlaskerudIngvild
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud -- Justice without drama : observations from Gaza city Sharia Court / Nahda Younis Shehada -- From the army of G-d to the Israeli armed forces : an interaction between two cultural models / Yohai Hakak -- To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper : the Anglican male ideal and St. George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug -- Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s-1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski -- Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron -- Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen -- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel -- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib -- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask -- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The complicated link between women and religion in the Middle East has been a source of debate for centuries, and has special resonance today. Whether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women - or a combination of both - depends on time, place and circumstance. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gender, religion and change in the Middle East |
| ISBN: | 1-282-59653-5 |
| 9786612596537 | |
| 1-84520-728-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824774603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; ; v. 26.