Women and Fundamentalism Women and Fundamentalism
Zones of Religion

Women and Fundamentalism

Islam and Christianity

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Publisher Description

During the past two decades, the surge of religious fundamentalism in the United States and in the Muslim world has resulted in many studies of the status of women and other family issues. This volume is a cross-cultural study of women's social status in Iran, Egypt, and in the U.S. during different stages of religious fundamentalism. In each of these countries, women have been active participants in fundamentalist movements, and this study shows that such participation enables women to reexamine their relationship to power in the family and in society and increase their group solidarity and feminist consciousness. The author combined quantitative, historical, and interview techniques in her analysis, gathering data by administering a questionnaire to middle-class women in the three countries. In Iran, she interviewed selected women leaders about future gender roles in the Islamic Republic. Students in women's studies, Middle Eastern culture, religion, history, sociology, and psychology, and political science will be interested in this publication.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2012
12 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
196
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SIZE
1.5
MB

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