TY - BOOK AU - Cooke,Miriam TI - Women claim Islam: creating Islamic feminism through literature SN - 0415925541 : AV - HQ1170 .C75 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Muslim women KW - Arab countries KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Intellectual life KW - Feminism KW - Feminism in literature N2 - Women Claim Islam analyzes the stories and autobiographies of contemporary Muslim Arab women who have literally written themselves into the history of the twentieth century. This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women today are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible ER -