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Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism
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Title
Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism / Marie-Claude Thomas.
ISBN
9781137281982 (hardback : alk. paper)
1137281987 (hardback : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Physical Description
x, 245 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Saghbine, a Christian village: women, religion and society
Geography and religious spaces
The childhood and adolescence of young girls
Marriage and the condition of married women
Adulthood, married life, and women's work
Interview
christian discourse
Muslim Lebanese women and an Islamic modernity
Islam in Lebanon: an overview
Struggle in modern Islam, women in tradition, and the discourse of the veil
Veiling and divergent feminism voices
Personal status laws in Islam, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah's tafsir, and Hizbullah Lebanese women
Interview
individual and communal perspectives: Muslim discourse
Transformation within a multicultural lebanon
Modernity, multiculturalism, and Lebanese women
Christian-Muslim relations, women and religion
Lebanese women in all their diversity: convergence and divergence
En route toward a more inclusive civil society.
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