Velvet jihad: Muslim women's quiet resistance to Islamic fundamentalism

Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-277

  Shirazi, Faegheh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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