Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh /

• Main Author: Alam, Sarwar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Islam-Doctrines.; Women.; Ethnography.; Religion and Gender.; Islamic Theology.; Women's Studies.

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women's limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses...