Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.

Author: Miriam Cooke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/08/2000
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415925549

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 304

About the Author

Miriam Cooke is Professor and Director of Asian and African Languages and Literatures at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the War Story (1997) and Gendering War Talk (1993), and co-editor of Opening theGates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990).