U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights / / Kelly J. Shannon.
Americans' concerns about women's human rights in Muslim countries were triggered by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and have evolved within the context of long-standing Western stereotypes about Muslims, as well as transnational feminism and the global human rights movement. As these frame...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution
- Chapter 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979
- Chapter 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam
- Chapter 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi “Gender Apartheid”
- Chapter 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s
- Chapter 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration
- Chapter 7. Muslim Women’s Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments