Identity, Politics & Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective

Abstract

Part 1 Theoretical, comparative and historical perspectives: introduction - women and identity politics in theoretical and comparative perspective, Valentine M. Moghadam the creation of the world we know - world economy and the recreation of gendered identities, Joan Smith the ideal woman and the ideal society - control and autonomy in the construction identity, Hanna Papanek women of the West imagined - the Frangi Other and the emergence of the woman question in Iran, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi. Part 2 Country case studies: politics, Islam, and women in Kano, Northern Nigeria, Ayesha Imam gender, religious identity and political mobilization, Sondra Hale feminism and Muslim fundamentalism - the Tunisian and Algerian cases, Alya Baffoun the social representation of women in Algeria's Islamist movement, Cherifa Bouatta and Dorian Cherifati-Merabtine gender activism - feminists and Islamists in Egypt, Margot Badran identity politics and women - fundamentalism and women in Pakistan, Khawar Mumtaz moving away from a secular vision? - women, nation and the cultural contruction of Hindu India, Sucheta Mazumdar identity politics and the contemporary Indian feminist movement, Radha Humar women and fundamentalism - the case of Turkey, Binnaz Toprak Halakha, Zionism and gender - the case of Gush Emunim, Madeleine Tress the role, place and power of middle-class women in the Islamic republic, Shanin Gerami paradoxical politics - gender politics among New Orthodox Jewish women in the US, Debra Renee Kaufman women of the New Right in the US - family, feminism and politics, Rebecca E. Klatch. Part 3 Dilemmas and strategies: the preferential symbol for Islamic identity - women in Muslim personal laws, Marie-Aimelie Lucas identity politics and women's ethnicity, Nira Yuval-Davis international standards of equality and religious freedom - implications for the status of women.