Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World)

This book offers a thorough and critical analysis of the work of one of the major figures in "Islamic feminism," Fatima Mernissi. This work traces Mernissi's intellectual trajectory from "secular" to "Islamic feminism" in order to engage in the theorization of this emerging feminism.