Research Guides: Anthropology Research Guide: ANTH 750

Course readings

Islamic Masculinities, Ouzgane, Lanoucine (ed.) (O), 2006.
Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Bowen, Donna Lee (ed.), 2014
Print edition on reserve at the library.
Abu-Lughod, Lila 2002. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104 (3):783-790
Badran, Margot 2002. “Islamic Feminism: What’s in the name?” Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 17 - 23 January 2002 Issue No.569
Badran, Margot 2006 "Islamic Feminism Revisted" Counter Currents, 10 February, 2006
Boellstorff, Tom 2005. “Between Religion and Desire: Being Muslim and Gay in Indonesia.” American Anthropologist. 107(4):575-585
Boose, L. E. 2002. “Crossing the River Drina: Bosnian Rape Camps, Turkish Impalement, and Serb Cultural Memory.” Signs. 28(1): 71-96
Charsley, Katherine 2005. “Unhappy Husbands: Masculinity and Migration in Transnational Pakistani Marriages.” Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. 11, 85-105
Enloe, Cynthia 2000. “Masculinity as Foreign Policy Issue.” In Focus. Foreign Policy online.
Esack, Farid 2001. “Islam and Gender Justice: Beyond Simplistic Apologia.” In What Men Owe to Women: Men’s Voices from World Religions. Edited by J.C. Rainers and D. C. Maguire. State University of New York Press. Pp. 187-109
Massad, Joseph 2002 “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World.” Public Culture 14(2):361-385
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba 1999. Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Selected Online Reference Resources

Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.)
Includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century
Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)
Still being updated
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
provide users with a "gender lens" on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research.
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
Published in 2011, this encyclopedia focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and going forward

Additional Databases to Consider

For even more options, check out the complete database list.

Index Islamicus
An international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world indexing over 3,400 titles with coverage back to 1906
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Provides objective English-language summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology.
Women's Studies International
Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Index to sources on world history from 1450 to the present from over 2,500 journals in over 40 languages. Includes book and media reviews.
LGBTQ+ Source
Index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Has indexing,abstracts, and selected full text for more than 140 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Offers indexing and abstracts for over 400 journals, including full text for nearly 200 journals