Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.April 2005 - B. Libraries that do own the previous volume will certainly want this one. The present edition retains these features but adds a fourth section, Transitions, which includes similar documents from the 1990s-documents bearing witness to the changes wrought during the decade, both regionally and globally, and their consequences for Arab women's lives at home and in the public sphere. Each document was prefaced with a bio-bibliographical account of its author/s. The historian Margot Badran states that Islamic feminism derives.

Arranged around the themes of awareness, rejection, and activism, the selections give strong voice universally held. From the Back Cover: Opening the Gates includes more than sixty selections, drawn from almost the entire Arab world. The original volume was organized according to stages or levels of feminism-with sections titled Awareness, Rejection, Activism-and included poetry, fiction, pamphlets, and public statements. Islamic feminism is anchored within the discourse of Islam with the Quran as its central text. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Read 7 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing by Margot Badran Opening the Gates book. At a time when the term feminism was still controversial, both in Euro-America and the Middle East, Badran and Cooke emphasized its relevance to Arab women's stories. Buy Opening the Gates, Second Edition: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing Second by Badran, Margot, cooke, miriam (ISBN: 9780253217035) from Amazon's Book Store. The first edition included some 60 contributions from women across the Arab world, materials representing a century and a half of engagement with women's issues. In this second edition of their anthology, Badran (Northwestern Univ.) and Cooke (Duke Univ.) make available not only the materials that appeared in the 1990 volume but also material written in the decade since.

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