Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities

Ebru Kongar is Associate Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time-use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is Research Associate at Levy Economics Institute’s Gender Equality and the Economy Program and an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics.Jennifer C. Olmsted is Professor of Economics and Director of Middle East Studies at Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA, with experience as well in the policy arena, including as the gender advisor at the UN Population Fund. Much of her research has focused on gender, economics, and the Middle East. Her publications have appeared in various journals, including World Development, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Development Studies, Feminist Economics, Women’s Studies International Forum, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, as well as numerous book volumes. Elora Shehabuddin is Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Science at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Her publications include Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh (Columbia University Press, 2008). She is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill). Her current book project is tentatively titled "Visions of Progress: Feminism, Empire, and Muslim Women."

• Foreword Introduction – Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities: A Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Analysis 1. Moving Beyond Culturalism and Formalism: Islam, Women, and Political Unrest in the Middle East 2. Patriarchy versus Islam: Gender and Religion in Economic Growth 3. The Influence of Patriarchal Norms, Institutions, and Household Composition on Women’s Employment in Twenty-Eight Muslim-Majority Countries 4. Unilateral Divorce for Women and Labor Supply in the Middle East and North Africa: The Effect of Khul Reform 5. Diverging Stories of "Missing Women" in South Asia: Is Son Preference Weakening in Bangladesh? 6. Funding Pain: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev 7. Peace in the Household: Gender, Agency, and Villagers’ Measures of Marital Quality in Bangladesh 8. "Just Like Prophet Mohammad Preached": Labor, Piety, and Charity in Contemporary Turkey 9. Entrepreneurial Subjectivities and Gendered Complexities: Neoliberal Citizenship in Turkey 10. Choice and Constraint in Paid Work: Women from Low-Income Households in Tehran 11. Agency through Development: Hausa Women’s NGOs and CBOs in Kano, Nigeria