Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

counterparts, was patriarchal, and moved to con- trol women, who were emerging as a new political force. Part of the nation-buil ...

A. Hassanpour, The (re)production of patriarchy in the Kurdish language, in S. Mojab (ed.), Women of a non- state nation. The Ku ...

(both Palestinian and East Bank), and Armenians, have not formed movements on a minority basis although they do make political c ...

conflict. The unilateral 1974 Autonomy Law pro- mulgated by Baghdad foundered over oil and Kir- kuk, which Mustafa Barzani claim ...

North Africa The Berber cultural movement is the most signif- icant minority sociopolitical movement to emerge from North Africa ...

an exception to this general trend. However, her alliance with the RCD is largely situational; while an advocate for the recogni ...

identify with national rather than Muslim-specific interests. The new South African Bill of Rights and the constitution provide ...

women there not only join the congregation in the mosque but also visit the cemetery. Interestingly, land for the first mosque t ...

distinct ethnic groups, was by official definition declared to be a “Turk.” The concept of minority in a juridical sense was lim ...

P. Andrews, Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey, Wiesbaden 1989. H. Bozarslan, Political crisis and the Kurdish issue in Tur ...

Afghanistan Much of the documented information in English about women’s rights in early twentieth-century Afghanistan emphasizes ...

relations and politics, and while some have hugely developed oil-rich economies, others have little or no natural resources. Som ...

components: a consciousness that women are op- pressed in many ways, and actual attempts to rec- tify or deal with this reality ...

from Islamists in that they do not support any one political philosophy or ideology and, in fact, many of them can be uncomforta ...

Union and the Arab Organization for Human Rights) have also amassed a legacy of impressive work on, with, and for women’s rights ...

decisions were made (Chubinidze 2000, Tsereteli 2000). From 1991, after the dismantling of the Soviet Union, the first women’s n ...

During the Soviet period, the emancipation of Central Asian women was extolled as accom- plished: this discourse was subjected t ...

Women in Muslim societies. Diversity within unity, Boulder, Colo. 1998, 187–202. D. Northrop, Veiled empire. Gender and power in ...

Bibliography A. Najmabadi, Hazards of modernity and morality. Women, state and ideology in contemporary Iran, in D. Kandiyoti (e ...

feminists addressed, separately, scriptural and spir- itual issues. Most Arab feminists have also been closely involved in male- ...