Tasneem Project: Statement on Gender

1. Ahmed, L. (1992) Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press)
2. Ali, K. (2006) Sexual Ethics in Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (Oxford: Oneworld Publications)
3. Alsop, R. Fitzsimmons, A. and Lennon, K. (2003) Theorizing Gender (Cambridge: Polity)
4. Archer, L (2003) Race, Masculinity and Schooling: Muslim Boys and Education (Buckingham: Open University Press)
5. Badran, M. (2002) Islamic feminism: what's in a name? Al-Ahram Weekly Online, Issue No.569 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/569/cu1.htm accessed 23/10/04
6. Barlas, A. (2002) Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (Texas: University of Texas Press)
7. Boellstorff, T. (2005) The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
8. Connell, R. W. (1995) Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity)
9. Connell, R. W. (2002) Gender (Cambridge: Polity)
10. El-Rouayheb, K. (2005) Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (University of Chicago Press)
11. Gaag, N. (2004) No Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights (London: NI/Verso)
12. Mahmood, S. (2005) Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (NJ: Princeton University Press)
13. Massad, J. (2007) Desiring Arabs (University Of Chicago Press)
14. Murray, S, and Roscoe, W. (1997) Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature (New York: New York University Press)
15. Ouzgane, L. [Ed.] (2006) Islamic Masculinities (London: Zed Books)
16. Roald, A. S. (2001) Women in Islam: The Western Experience (London: Routledge)
17. Stowasser, B. F. (1994) Women in the Qur’an: Traditions and Interpretations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
18. Sullivan, D. J. & Abed-Kotob, S. (1999) Zaynab al-Ghazali: Islamist Feminist, in S. Mumm (2002) Religion Today: A Reader (Milton Keynes: Open University Press)
19. Wadud, A. (1999) Qur’an and Women: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Women’s Position, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

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