Gender and national identity : women and politics in Muslim societies /

This lucid and accessible collection explores gender and national identity within political movements in the Middle East, the Maghreb and South Asia. It reveals how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes, and argues that in periods of political change, women are central to efforts to construct a national identity. The book focuses on predominantly Muslim movements, and includes Algerian women's experience in the national liberation movementthe struggle to construct a Bengali national identity and the creation of Bangladeshevents leading to revolution and Islamization in Iranrevolution and civil war in Afghanistanand the Palestinian intifada.Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-173) and index.This lucid and accessible collection explores gender and national identity within political movements in the Middle East, the Maghreb and South Asia. It reveals how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes, and argues that in periods of political change, women are central to efforts to construct a national identity. The book focuses on predominantly Muslim movements, and includes Algerian women's experience in the national liberation movementthe struggle to construct a Bengali national identity and the creation of Bangladeshevents leading to revolution and Islamization in Iranrevolution and civil war in Afghanistanand the Palestinian intifada