Description |
ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Social history of the modern Middle East |
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Social history of the modern Middle East.
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Contents |
Foreword / Edmund Burke III -- Introduction / Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker -- 1. A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa / Julia Clancy-Smith -- 2. Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women's Studies / Mervat F. Hatem -- 3. The Other "Awakening": The Emergence of Women's Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940 / Ellen L. Fleischmann -- 4. Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices / Annelies Moors -- 5. Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women's Voices Rising / Mary Elaine Hegland |
Summary |
The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area - gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements - and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic. Although structured around the individual author's own work, the chapters also include overviews and assessments of other research, highlights of ongoing debates and key issues, and comparisons across regions of the Middle East. An insightful introduction centers the various chapters around key theoretical, methodological, and historical issues and makes connections with other areas of social historical research on the Middle East and with research on gender and women's history in other parts of the world |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Women -- Middle East -- History.
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Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Sex role -- Middle East -- History.
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Feminism -- Middle East.
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Author |
Tucker, Judith E.
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Meriwether, Margaret Lee.
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LC no. |
99017105 |
ISBN |
081332100X |
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0813321018 |
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