Title:
Engaging modernity : Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger / Ousseina D. Alidou.
Author:
Alidou, Ousseina.
Publication Information:
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
Call Number:
HQ1812 .A45 2005
Abstract:
"Based on thorough scholarly research and extensive fieldwork including a wealth of interviews Alidou's work offers insights into the meaning of modernity for Muslim women in Niger. Mixing biography with sociological data, social theory and linguistic analysts, this is a multilavered vision of political at Islam, education, popular culture, and war and its aftermath. A look at one of the Muslim world's most powerful untold stories."--Jacket.
Electronic Access:
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10223899Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005005434.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005005434-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005005434-d.html
ISBN:
9780299212100
9780299212148
Series:
Women in Africa and the diaspora
Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Physical Description:
xxi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Women, education, and epistemological traditions -- Women, folklore, and performative identities -- Women and overt political contestation.
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