The Ideal Refugees : Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival 9780815652366, 9780815633266

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their

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English Pages 352 Year 2014

The Ideal Refugees : Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival
9780815652366, 9780815633266

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan ca

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Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan ca

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The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have

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This book builds on existing scholarship in a variety of disciplines on the topic of gender and sexuality in Islam.

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Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional book when first published but a powerful interpretatio

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An argument that in the era of globalization, survival—outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future—h

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Control over education has been a keenly contested area since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in T

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How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic law is often misrepresented as

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A collection of articles on the themes of gender and history, which attempts to articulate the nature of the connection

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This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a concept

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