Women and peace in the Islamic world : gender, agency and influence /: gender, agency and influence. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines.
• Editors: Saikia, Yasmin; Haines, Chad
• Contents: Ungendering peace talk / Miriam Cooke -- Dialogical din and everyday acts of peace: an Islamic perspective / Chad Haines -- Negotiating Islamic feminism: echoes of medieval theological disputes in modern Islam / Richard C. Martin -- Women, Islam, transnationalism: 'politics of location' and other contentions in women's organizing in Bangladesh / Elora Halim Chowdhury -- Agents of peace: an exploration of three Acehnese women leaders / Asma Husun -- The role of Muslim women in engendering peace: Bilad al-Sudan (Sudan and Nigeria) / Souad T. Ali -- In pursuit of peace: Muslim women's peace initiatives in the Islamic republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo -- Religion, women and peaceful revolutions: perspectives from the Arab Middle East / Azza Karam -- Strangers, friends and peace: the women's world of Abdullah Hall, Aligarh Muslim University / Yasmin Saikia -- The living monuments of mourning: struggles for memory and peace in post-revolutinary Iran / Shahla Talebi -- Merhametli peace is women's peace: religious and culural practices of compassion and neighbourliness in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zilka Spahic-Siljak -- Conclusion: gender, peace and war / Sally L. Kitch.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages)
• Subjects: 327.1/72082; Women and peace -- Islamic countries; Women in Islam; Political violence -- Islamic countries; Femmes; Paix; Violence politique; Political violence; Women and peace; Women in Islam; Frau; Islam; Feminismus; Muslimin; Politisches Engagement; Einfluss; Friedenspolitik; Friedensbemühung; Kvinnor och fred; Kvinnor och islam; Politiskt våld; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Pays arabes; Islamic countries; Islamische Staaten; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857737250; 0857737252
• Related ISBNs: 9781784530174; 1784530174
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-407) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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