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Selected Bibliography of Literature in English
Compiled by Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck

Women in Moslem Societies. Diversity Within Unity. Ed.: Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi. Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1998: [THIS IS MY FAVOURITE-APV]

  • Nayereh Tohidi. The Issues at Hand, pp. 251-277.
  • Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Between Lenin and Allah: Women and Ideology in Tajikistan. pp. 163-187.
  • Nayereh Tohidi. "Guardians of the Nation": Women, Islam, and the Soviet Legacy of Modernization in Azerbaijan. pp. 137-163.
  • Paula A. Michaels. Kazak Women: Living the Heritage of a Unique Pastpp. 187-205.
  • Hisae Nakanishi. Power, Ideology and Women's Consciousness in Postrevolutionary Iran, pp. 83-101.
  • Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Ed.: Mary Buckley. Cambridge University Press, 1997:

  • Shirin Akiner. Between Tradition and Modernity: the Dilemma Facing Contemporary Central Asian Women. In:, pp. 261-305
  • Globalization, Gender and Religion. The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts. Ed.: Jane H. Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi. Palgrave, 2001 (forthcoming).

    Leila Ahmed. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1992.

    Valentine Moghadam.Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998).

    Valentine Moghadam. "Islamist Movements and Women's Response in the Middle East." In: Gender and History, Vol. 3, no 3, 1991.

    Fatima Mernissi. Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society. Revised edition. Indiana University Press, 1987.

    Fatima Mernissi. Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1992.

    Fatima Mernissi. "Arab Women's Rights and the Muslim State in the Twenty First Century: Feflections on Islam as Religion and State." In: M.Afkhami, (ed.), Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World. Syracuse University Press, 1995.

    Kathleen Kuehnast. Women and Gender Relations: the Kyrgyz Republic in Transition (co-author), 1998.

    Haleh Esfandiari. Reconstructed Lives: Women and Irans's Islamic Revolution. Haideh Moghissi.

    Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism. The limits of post-modern analysis. Zed Books, 1999.

    Muslim Women's Choices. Religious Belief and Social Reality. Ed.: Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro. Berg Publishers, 1994., including:

  • Dragadze T. Islam in Azerbaijan: The Position of Women.
  • Badran, M. Feminism, Islam and Nation. Princeton University Press, 1995.

    Chaudhry, M.S. Women's Rights in Islam. Adam Publishers, Delhi, 1991.

    De Awis, M. "A Feminist Critique of the Gulf War." Economic and Political Weekly, September 7, 1991.

    Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation. Implemeting the Beijing Platform. Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl. Syracuse University Press. 1997.

    Feminism in the Muslim World. Leadership Institutes in Istanbul and Lagos. Ed.: Anita Helie. Center for Women's Global Leadership and Women Living Under Muslim Laws. 2000.

    Marfua Takhtakhodzhaeva. Between Slogans of Communism and Islam. Shirhat Gah, Lahore, 1995. (Russian edition by Regional Program Office, Vienna, 2000).

    Doi Abdul Rahman I. Woman in Shariah. Ta-Ha Publishers, London, 1989.

    Claiming Our Rights. A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies. By Mahnaz Afkhami and Haleh Vaziri. Sisterhood is Global Institute. 1996.

    Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies. Ed.Pinar Ilkkaracan.Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways and WLUML. Istanbul, 2000.

    Nahid Toubia. Female Genital Mutilation. Call for Global Action. Rainbow, 1997.

    Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives. Ed. By Mai Yamani. Ithaca Press, Reading, UK, 1997.

    Afary, J. "The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Allthemighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism." New Left Review, No. 224, 1997.

     

     

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