Women In the Bahá'í Faith

Women and The Bahá'í Faith

Last Revised: August 2000

General Statements from The Universal House of Justice and National Spiritual Assemblies

Two Wings of a Bird: The Equality of Women and Men: Statement from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States
Turning Point For All Nations A Statement of the Bahá'í International Community on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations (contains a section on Advancing the Status of Women)
The Prosperity of Humankind : A statement prepared by the Bahá'í International Community Office of Public Information, Haifa, first distributed at the United Nations World Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark. (contains several references to advancing the status of women)

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Armstrong-Ingram, R. J. (1996). The provisions for sexuality in the Kitáb-i-Áqdás. Paper presented at the Society for Shaykhi, Bábi, and Bahá'í Studies meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, November.
Finch, T. (1994). Unclipping the wings: A survey of secondary literature in English on Bahá'í perspectives on women. Bahá'í Studies Review, 4(1).
Left Hand Bull, J. (1989). The return of the "White Buffalo Calf Woman": Prophecy of the Lakota (Interview conducted by Patricia Locke).
Maneck, S. (1994). Women in the Bahá'í Faith (excerpted from Religion and Women). Albany: SUNY Press.
McGlinn, S. (1995b). Some considerations relating to the inheritance laws of the Aqdas. Bahá'í Studies Review.
Moojan M. (1994). In all the ways that matter, women don't count. Bahá'í Studies Review, 4(1).
Mottahedeh, N. (1997). The mutilated body of the modern nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn's unveiling and the Persian massacre of the Bábis circa 1852. Paper presented at The Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Conference, University of California at Berkeley, April.
Mottahedeh, N. (1998, February). Ruptured spaces and effective histories: The unveiling of the Bábi poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the gardens of Badasht. Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 2(2).