 | Being Muslim the Bosnian Way by Tone Bringa
Buy new: $28.75 / Used from: $8.12 A picture of normal Bosnian life before the chaos of war.
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 | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.41 A graphic novel about a young girl growing up in Iran at the time of the Islamic revolution
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 | Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey by Jenny B. White
Buy used from: $3.07 An anthropological look at the informal economic networks established by urban Muslim women in Istanbul.
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 | Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics (Studies in Modernity and National Identity) by Jenny B. White
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $10.85 Why would women vote for an "Islamist" political party? It is all revealed here!
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 | Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.35 Every wonder what daily life in Iraq was like before Saddam Hussein?
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 | In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $2.68 Islamic Feminism? Is it possible?
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| Changing veils: Women and modernisation in North Yemen by Carla Makhlouf
Buy used from: $15.18 A ground-breaking study from the volatile 1970's in Yemen.
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| Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.(Book Review): An article from: The Middle East Women's Studies Review by Sophia Pandya
Buy new: $5.95 A detailed comparison of Saudi women's health practices with those of the Gulf.
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 | Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Nancy Tapper
Buy new: $60.42 / Used from: $24.24 Fascinating insights into Afghan tribal society, with a particular focus on women's lives.
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 | Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by David L. Ransel
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $3.45 Yes, believe it or not, Russian and Tatar cultures can be coherently compared, and are indeed relevant to the topic of Muslim women.
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| The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women: "The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me" (Modern Middle East, No. 17) by Benedicte Grima
Buy used from: $7.49 Should we listen when women complain? This book says "yes!".
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 | Secrets From The Field: An Ethnographer's Notes From North Western Pakistan by Benedicte Grima
Buy new: $13.24 / Used from: $9.00 What is it REALLY like doing research on Muslim culture in a place that may hide terrorists? The secrets are shared here.
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 | Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space by John R. Bowen
Buy new: $29.92 / Used from: $14.50 They don't?
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 | Muslims through Discourse by John R. Bowen
Buy new: $44.00 / Used from: $14.16 Don't forget the Muslim cultures of South-East Asia.
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 | The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey by Dr. Ayse Gul Altinay
Buy new: $27.69 / Used from: $20.95 To understand "Muslim women", we need also to understand how male gender constructs are maintained in specific cultural contexts. This book shows how important the mandatory military service for Turkish men is in the idea of the Turkish nation.
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 | Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab by Leslie Peirce
Buy new: $32.95 / Used from: $16.74 How can we study Muslim women in the past -- how about looking at court records and seeing who they sued and for what?
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 | Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants And Their Decendants by Barbara Aswad
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $2.40 More on Muslims in America...
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 | Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East (Saqi Essentials)
Buy new: $17.56 / Used from: $5.45 How about the category "Muslim Men"? What does it mean?
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 | Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing With an Egg and a Stone by Evelyn A. Early
Buy used from: $3.37 An in-depth look at urban women's health care issues in Cairo
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 | We Have No Microbes Here: Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village (Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series) ... Studies in Medical Anthropology Series) by Sylvia Wing Onder
Buy new: $31.58 / Used from: $7.04 If health care of their families is a major responsibility of Muslim women, why is it so little studied?
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 | Untidy Gender: Domestic Service in Turkey (Women In The Political Economy) by Gul Ozyegin
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $14.55 The best study in English of the intimate yet unequal relations between middle class Turkish families and the lower class families who work for them, often living in the same building.
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 | Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Politics, History, and Culture) by Esra Ozyurek
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $9.90 What is a "Kemalist" family?
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