Dongxiang Muslim women as ‘boundary subjects’: reflections on gender and identity in the borderland areas of northwest China
With the highest female illiteracy rate in China (2000 national census), the Dongxiang Muslim community in northwest China shows the most striking male-female gender hierarchy among all Muslim nationalities in northwest China. This paper explains how local Islamic culture – jiaopai and menhuan -- an...
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/792/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/792/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/792/1/1.2010-2-Man%2CKe-english-2.pdf |