Perfecting Women

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913310
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfecting Women written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Muslims, is a vital source for those interested in modern Indian social and intellectual history, in Islamic reform, and in conceptions of gender and women's roles. The Bihishti Zewar was written in northern India in the early 1900s by a revered Muslim scholar and spiritual guide, Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (1864-1943), to instruct Muslim girls and women in religious teachings, proper behavior, and prudent conduct of their everyday lives. In so doing, it sets out the core of a reformist version of Islam that has become increasingly prominent across Muslim societies during the past hundred years. Throughout the work, nothing is more striking than the extent to which the book takes women and men as essentially the same, in contrast to European works directed toward women at this time. Its rich descriptions of the everyday life of the relatively privileged classes in turn-of-the-century north India provide information on issues of personality formation as well as on family life, social relations, household management, and encounters with new institutions and inventions. Barbara Metcalf has carefully selected those sections of the Bihishti Zewar that best illustrate the themes of reformist thought about God, the person, society, and gender. She provides a substantial introduction to the text and to each section, as well as detailed annotations.

Author : Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Perfecting Women written by Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : ʻAshraf ʻAlī Thānvī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Perfecting Women written by ʻAshraf ʻAlī Thānvī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phil Goss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136899758
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men, Women and Relationships - A Post-Jungian Approach written by Phil Goss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the deep tension in western culture between the transcendent masculine and the immanent feminine. Offering both developmental and socio-cultural frameworks, areas of discussion include: the use of story and myth to understand gender Jungian and post-Jungian approaches: updating anima/animus working clinically with men, and with women the developmental pathways of gender difference power relations between men and women in the home. Men, Women and Relationships – A Post-Jungian Approach will be a valuable resource for all those with an interest in analytical psychology including psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors, as well as those in the broader fields of social work and education who have an interest in gender difference and identity.

Author : Asma Barlas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782888
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Believing Women in Islam written by Asma Barlas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings. Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur'an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur'an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. She goes on to reread the Qur'an's position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes.

Author : Yonjoo Cho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319549960
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Perspectives on Asian Women in Leadership written by Yonjoo Cho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist. It provides insight into gender inequality and underutilization of female talent as well as ways to develop highly qualified women in organizations. Chapters from expert contributors analyze the similarities and differences between each Asian country, the organizational and institutional challenges for women in the workplace, and how they balance work-family relationships. It will appeal to researchers and students in human resource development, management, leadership, Asia studies, women’s studies, and political science, among others.

Author : Mary Ries Melendy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
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Download or read book Perfect Womanhood for Maidens--wives--mothers written by Mary Ries Melendy and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esita Sur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000824608
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Muslim Women’s Activism written by Esita Sur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India. It deconstructs the 'Muslim woman' as the monolith based on tropes like purdah, polygamy, and tin talaq and compels the reader to revisit the question of Muslim women’s individual and collective agency. The book argues that the political field, along with religion, moulds the nature and scope of Muslim women’s activism in India. It looks at the objectives of four Muslim women’s organisations: the Bazm-e-Niswan, the Awaaz-e-Niswaan, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan and the India International Women’s Alliance (IIWA), in close interaction with the political landscape of Mumbai. The book explores the emergence of gender-inclusive interpretation of Muslim women’s rights by Muslim women activists and challenges the dominant and reductionist stereotypes on Muslim women, community, and absolutist ideas of Islam. It argues that Muslim women are not passive victims of their culture and religion, rather they can develop a critique of their marginality and subjugation from within the community. Revisiting Muslim Women’s Activism traces the evolution of a community-centric approach in women’s activism and records a fragmented view on women’s rights from within the community and religious leadership. It also delineates the distinctiveness of this activism that considers religion and culture as resources for empowerment and as sites of contestations. Moreover, the book documents the narratives of Muslim women’s struggle and resistance from their location and lived experiences. It will be of interest to students and researchers of women’s studies, gender studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, and Islamic studies.

Author : Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315390698
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Women's Income written by Farah Deeba Chowdhury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Islam in Bangladesh -- Muslim family law in Bangladesh -- CEDAW, Islamic law and women in Bangladesh -- Dowry, women and law in Bangladesh -- Women, income and dowry in Bangladesh

Author : S N Amin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004106420
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 written by S N Amin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th and 20th century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements - Brahmo/Hindu and Muslim - and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the bhadramahila, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an excellent analysis of the rise of a Muslim woman's public sphere and broadens our knowledge of Bengali social history in the colonial period.