Gender and Islam in Africa: rights, sexuality, and law

Abstract

Muslim women's knowledge production in the greater Maghreb: the example of Nana Asma'u of Northern Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack -- Rethinking marginality and agency in postcolonial Niger: a social biography of a Sufi woman scholar / Ousseina D. Alidou -- Deconstructing Islamic feminism: a look at Fatima Mernissi / Raja Rhouni -- Embodied tafsir: South African Muslim women confront gender violence in marriage / Sa'diyyah Shaikh -- Changing conceptions of moral womanhood in Somali popular songs, 1960-1990 / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Guidelines for the ideal mu slim woman: gender ideology and practice in the Tabligh Jamaʻat in the Gambia / Marloes Janson -- Titanic in Kano: video, gender, and Islam / Heike Behrend -- Shariʻa activism and Zina in Nigeria in the era of hudud / Margot Badran -- Women and men put Islamic law to their own use: monogamy versus secret marriage in Mauritania / Corinne Fortier -- Islam, gender, and democracy in Morocco: the making of the mudawana reform / Julie E. Pruzan-Jørgensen -- Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes / Benjamin F. Soares -- Legal recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa / Rashida Manjoo