Alam, Sarwar <br/><br/>
Perceptions of self, power, & gender among Muslim women :  narratives from a rural community in Bangladesh 
 Perceptions of self power and gender among Muslim women 
Sarwar Alam 
 - Basingstoke, Hampshire :   Palgrave Macmillan,   c2018. 
 - xvii, 288 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Geography and DemographyChapter 3: Self, Identity, and IndividualityChapter 4: Women's Perceptions of Agency and PowerChapter 5: Sources of Power and AgencyChapter 6: Barriers to Women's Power and AgencyChapter 7: Construction of Gender and Gender IdeologyChapter 8: Conclusion.  
<br/><br/> This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783319737904  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Muslim women--Social conditions--Bangladesh<br/>Muslim women--Religious life--Bangladesh<br/>Agent (Philosophy)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.48697095492 AL PE