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Euro-American Women's Studies and Islamic Cultures
(7,545 words)

Over the past 30 years, women's studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge encompassing the studies of Islamic cultures in Euro-American academic institutions. During the early 1970s, when feminist theoretical and methodological paradigms, tools, and resources began to be applied to …

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Cooke, Miriam, “Euro-American Women's Studies and Islamic Cultures”, in: Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph. Consulted online on 06 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_EWICCOM_0062>
First published online: 2009



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