Women Claim Islam Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. Arabic translation by National Translation Center Press in Cairo, 2010. Chinese translation of chapter 5 in Newsletter of Eastern Literary Studies, Peking University, March 2012. Chapter One republished in Global Literary Theory, Richard Lane (ed.) 2013.

Duke Scholars

Author miriam cooke Asian & Middle Eastern Studies