Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
By Isobel Coleman.
Description
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism. In this timely book, Coleman journeys through the strategic crescent of the greater Middle Ea...
ISBN(s)
1400066956, 9781400066957
