Research databases
- GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSearch articles in magazines, newsletters, and scholarly journals about gender issues.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill) This link opens in a new windowUseful for information about history, Islamic jurisprudence, comparative information by country etc.
Recommended Reading
- A quiet revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America (Leila Ahmed)A sensitive exploration of the meaning of women's veiling and its relationship to piety among today's Muslim women.
- Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency (Mounira M. Charrad)
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Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 37 (2011), pp. 417-437 - Global Gender Gap ReportPublished annually by the World Economic Forum, this report compares countries on the basis of chiefly economic indicators, such as labor force participation, income and wages, but also compares political participation, health indicators, and educational attainment.
- Introduction to Muslim Sexual EthicsThis web site is part of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University
- The Veil and the Male Elite (Fatima Mernissi)
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A classic book of second-wave feminism by a Moroccan author, originally published in 1987. - Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesPublished by Duke University Press and managed by the Middle East Women's Studies Association, a key scholarly resource.
