Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
Biographical note
Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has published Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (Syracuse University Press, 1999), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and Gender and Power in the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Readership
Students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
Reviews
"In scope and intent, a unique effort... Essential" – Choice, June 2004.
"The invigorating originality of the work lies in its historic accomplishment of presenting the osmotic relationship between religion and culture as revealed through the lives of women." – Rafia Zakaria, NWSA Journal, 2006.
"This ..will be a welcome addition to any public library and an essential addition to academic libraries." – Glenn Masuchika, ARBA Online.
"The entries ... represent an enormous amount of hard work by an impressive collection of scholars and a very significant collection of expertise and critique." – Sunaina Maira, H-Net Reviews, October 2004.
"... This work is recommended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate research libraries. The sheer volume of authors and subjects covered would make it an excellent resource for research in a number of disciplines related to woman in Islamic culture." – Susan Wortman, Librarian at the University of Michigan.
"These volumes are highly recommended: they are in indispensible source of material for those seeking to research and understand the many issues and contexts relating to Muslim women and women under Islamic cultures." – Raana Bokhari, The Muslim World Book Review 27:4 (2007), 70-2.
"The invigorating originality of the work lies in its historic accomplishment of presenting the osmotic relationship between religion and culture as revealed through the lives of women." – Rafia Zakaria, NWSA Journal, 2006.
"This ..will be a welcome addition to any public library and an essential addition to academic libraries." – Glenn Masuchika, ARBA Online.
"The entries ... represent an enormous amount of hard work by an impressive collection of scholars and a very significant collection of expertise and critique." – Sunaina Maira, H-Net Reviews, October 2004.
"... This work is recommended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate research libraries. The sheer volume of authors and subjects covered would make it an excellent resource for research in a number of disciplines related to woman in Islamic culture." – Susan Wortman, Librarian at the University of Michigan.
"These volumes are highly recommended: they are in indispensible source of material for those seeking to research and understand the many issues and contexts relating to Muslim women and women under Islamic cultures." – Raana Bokhari, The Muslim World Book Review 27:4 (2007), 70-2.
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Family, Body, Sexuality and Health is Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. In almost 200 well written entries it covers the broad field of family, body, sexuality and health and Islamic cultures.
€256.00$332.00
Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.
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