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000470981 1001_ $$aShaheed, Farida.
000470981 24510 $$aGreat ancestors :$$bwomen claiming rights in Muslim contexts /$$cFarida Shaheed with Aisha Lee Shaheed.
000470981 260__ $$aKarachi :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2011.
000470981 300__ $$axxxvii, 220 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000470981 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. [194]-200) and index.
000470981 5050_ $$aWomen, defiance, and Muslim contexts: an introductory essay -- The first generations: the eighth to ninth centuries -- Rulers, poets, and scholars: eleventh to fourteenth centuries -- The age of empires: courts of justice, courts of power, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Women at the crossroads: the nineteenth century -- Women organizing for change: late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Women in the modern political process: the first fifty years of the twentieth century -- Forging new identities in the twentieth century -- Afterthoughts and new beginnings.
000470981 520__ $$aThis book profiles women who defied and changed the contours of women's lives from the eighth century to the mid-1950s. There is a widespread myth both outside and within Muslim contexts that women's struggles for rights is alien to those societies that embraced Islam and a misconception that the contemporary women's movement is exclusively rooted in Western concepts and struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Muslim contexts, this myth discredits women's rights advocates and their cause and, when taken as fact, discourages women's assertions for their rights and justice.  This book explodes this myth and provides a very different picture of the past. Far from the commonly held impression of silenced, cloistered and acquiescent women, these "great ancestors" are strong, determined women, whether famous and powerful or not. These are women who fought for personal rights and bodily integrity, who extended solidarity to women and other downtrodden people, and who improved their societies as scholars, saints and political activists. Many of the "great ancestors" led by example: by the life-choices they made for themselves, these women defied, and so challenged, existing structures and norms and in doing so, they provided an opening for other women (and men) to either follow in their footsteps or to emulate them by creating another path, another choice. Their lives are as inspiring today as they were in their lifetimes.
000470981 650_0 $$aFeminism$$zIslamic countries.
000470981 650_0 $$aWomen's rights$$zIslamic countries.
000470981 650_0 $$aWomen$$zIslamic countries$$xSocial conditions.
000470981 7001_ $$aShaheed, Aisha L. F.
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