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The private is political: Women and family in intellectual Islam
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IslamIslamic awakening
Islamic feminism
Islamic revival
liberalism
personal status laws
Hiba Ra'uf
secularism
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10.1177/1464700110366805Publication Info
McLarney, Ellen (2010). The private is political: Women and family in intellectual Islam. FEMINIST THEORY, 11(2). pp. 129-148. 10.1177/1464700110366805. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6636.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Ellen McLarney
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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