Inscribing South Asian Muslim women : : an annotated bibliography & research guide / / by Tahera Aftab.
With its trans-historic and comprehensive annotated sources, this volume serves as a kaleidoscope through which the reader glimpses the shifting patterns of the private and the public lives of South Asian Muslim women.
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| Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East, v. 91 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ;
91. Bd. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (656 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
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Table of Contents:
- Selected sources for the study of South Asian Muslim women
- Muslim women in the history of South Asia
- Islamic traditions, Muslim women and the reform movement
- Pardah : Muslim women in/out of seclusion
- Religious practices
- In search of their identity : Muslim women setting new goals
- Women, nationalism and religion
- Muslim women's movements in South Asia
- The life cycle of South Asian Muslim women
- Women's rights to inherit property
- Education of South Asian Muslim women
- South Asian Muslim women's health
- Perspectives on South Asian women's development
- The arts and design
- Challanges, threats, and the responses of woman
- Feminism, new scholarship and new toods for development.