FOR FURTHER READINGS:

 

Afary, Janet, “Feminism and the Challenge of Muslim Fundmentalism,” in Spoils of War: Women of color, cultures and revolutionsRowman and Littlefield, 1997, pp. 83-100. 

 

Bodman, Herbert and Nayereh Tohidi, Women in Muslim Societies: diversity within unityBoulder: Lynne Reinner 1998.

 

Bowen, Donna Lee, “Abortion, Islam and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference,” in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 29, no. 2, 161-184.

 

Burton, Antoinette, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture 1865-1915University of North Carolina Press 1994. 

 

El Saadawi, Nawal, The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab WorldBoston: Beacon Press 1980. 

 

El Guindi, Fadwa, Veil: Modesty, Privacy and ResistanceBerg Publishers, 1999.  An anthropology of Islamic veiling. 

 

Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World.  Editor: Mahnaz AfkamiSyracuse University Press, 1995.

 

Hatem, Mervat, “Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women’s Studies,” in Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East, editors Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker.  Westview, 1999.  Pp. 63-87.

 

Jawad, Haifaa, The Rights of Women in Islam: an authentic approach.  MacMillan Press, 1998. 

 

Kandiyoti, Deniz, “Contemporary Feminist Scholarship and Middle East Studies,” in Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, editor Deniz KandiyotiSyracuse University Press, 1996. 

 

Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Patriarchy. [Volume I of the two volume series Women and History].  Oxford University Press 1986. 

 

Mernissi, Fatima, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim SocietyIndiana University Press. Revised edition, 1985.

 

Mernissi, Fatima, The Veil and the Male Elite: a feminist interpretation of women’s rights in IslamAddison-Wesley, 1991.  .