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Adryan Wallace
Anna Sjogren
Antonina Griecci Woodsum
Bedouin Women
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CEDAW
Classic Patriarchy
Country Specific Time Trends
Damla Isik
Dummy Variable
economic development
Elissa Braunstein
Elora Shehabuddin
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Fauzia Erfan Ahmed
Female Selective Abortion
feminist economics
Gamze Cavdar
Gdp Growth
gender and economics
Gender Based Wage Inequality
gender equality
Hausa Women
Himmat Zu'bi
Islam
Islamic feminist economics
Jennifer C. Olmsted
Labor Force Participation
Lag Gdp Growth
Lena Hassani-Nezhad
Lopita Huq
MENA Country
Microcredit Programs
Middle East gender studies
Muslim communities
Muslim Majority Countries
Muslim women economic agency
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Naila Kabeer
Niels Spierings
orientalism
Ozlem Altan-Olcay
patriarchal institutions
political unrest
postcolonial theory
postcolonialism
quantitative case analysis
Rachel Busbridge
Religious Affiliation Variables
Roksana Bahramitash
Simeen Mahmud
Son Preference
Stephanie Seguino
Supplemental Online Table
Unrecognized Villages
Vice Versa
Women's Entrepreneurial Activities
Women's Gainful Employment
Women's Labor Force Participation
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Women’s Entrepreneurial Activities
Women’s Gainful Employment
Women’s Labor Force Participation
Yavuz Yasar
Younger Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415783873
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Bringing together feminist analyses of economic processes and outcomes with feminist critiques of Orientalism, this book examines the diverse economic realities facing women in a range of Muslim communities. This approach pays special attention to the role of Islam in economic analyses of gender equality and women’s well-being in Muslim communities, while at the same time challenging biased and inaccurate accounts that essentialize Islam.

Nuanced case studies conducted in Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Nigeria, and Turkey illustrate the historical and institutional diversity of Muslim communities and draw vivid pictures of the everyday economic lives of Muslim women in these communities. These studies are complemented by quantitative analyses that extend beyond inserting Islam as a dummy variable. The contributions represent a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, gender studies, political science, psychology, and sociology.

By placing critiques of Orientalist scholarship in direct dialogue with scholarship on economic development in Muslim contexts, this diverse collection illustrates how different methods and frameworks can work together to provide a better understanding of gender equality and women’s well-being in Muslim contexts. In doing so, the authors aim to facilitate conversations among feminist scholars across disciplines in order to provide a more nuanced picture of the situation facing women in Muslim communities.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.
About
Ebru Kongar is Associate Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time-use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is Research Associate at Levy Economics Institute’s Gender Equality and the Economy Program and an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Jennifer C. Olmsted is Professor of Economics and Director of Middle East Studies at Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA, with experience as well in the policy arena, including as the gender advisor at the UN Population Fund. Much of her research has focused on gender, economics, and the Middle East. Her publications have appeared in various journals, including World Development, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Development Studies, Feminist Economics, Women’s Studies International Forum, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, as well as numerous book volumes. Elora Shehabuddin is Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Science at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Her publications include Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh (Columbia University Press, 2008). She is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill). Her current book project is tentatively titled "Visions of Progress: Feminism, Empire, and Muslim Women."