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On Shifting Ground : Muslim Women in the Global Era by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone; Project Muse is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is On Shifting Ground : Muslim Women in the Global Era about?

“Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women” (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present). The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more than in the Middle East and Muslim worlds. And no one within those worlds has been more affected than women, who face new and vital questions. Has Arab Spring made life better for Muslim women? Has new media empowered feminists or is it simply a tool of the opposition? Will the newfound freedoms of Middle Eastern women grow or be taken away by yet more oppressive regimes? This “provocative volume” has been updated with a new introduction and two new essays, offering insider views on how Muslim women are navigating technology, social media, public space, the tension between secularism and fundamentalism, and the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship (Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, UCLA).

Author

Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone; Project Muse

Publisher

Feminist Press at The City University of New York; Feminist Press at the City University of New York

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558618565

Subjects

Islam, Sociology, Science