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Kinship, Islam, or Oil: Culprits of Gender Inequality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2009

Mounira M. Charrad
Mounira M. Charrad
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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Gender inequality in the Muslim world has become the object of high drama on the international scene. Ghostlike images of women wrapped in burqas and begging in the streets of Afghan cities swept television screens in the United States following 9/11. The number of articles on Muslim women in English newspapers has increased exponentially in the last few years. Although the popular press and the media continue to emphasize seclusion and subordination in their description of Muslim women, scholars have written extensively and persuasively to debunk the myth of the Muslim woman as a victim, passively suffering the subordination imposed on her. Starting in the 1970s and continuing to the present, a rich literature has argued that as elsewhere in the world, Muslim women have not only resisted subordination but have actively shaped their own destiny (e.g., work by Leila Ahmed [1992], Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt [2008, 2009], Elizabeth Fernea [1998], Nikki Keddie [2002, 2007, 2008], and Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji [forthcoming]).

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 546 - 553
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2009

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