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1 online resource (432 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; BOOK ONE: Women in the Middle East: A History; Introduction: Issues in Studying Middle Eastern Women's History; I. Regional Background and the Beginnings of Islam; Historical Middle Eastern Societies and Gender Relations; Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Rise of Islam; II. From the Pious Caliphs through the Dynastic Caliphates; The Age of Pious Caliphs and Major Conquests; Women in Medieval Muslim Society; Islamic Law (Shari2) and Traditions (Hadiths); Marriage, Divorce, Child Custody |
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Women's Lives and Codes of Honor over the CenturiesClass and Slavery; The Lives of Medieval Women as Recorded in the Cairo Geniza; III. From the Turkish and Mongol Invasions to 1798; Turks, Mongols, and Mamluks: New Rulers and Gender Attitudes; Ottomans and Safavids; Western Views of Middle Eastern Muslim Women; IV. Change in the Long Nineteenth Century 1798-1914; An Overview of Change; Modernizing Reforms and Colonial Rule; Debating Middle Eastern Women's Status and Roles; V. 1914-45: Nationalism and Women's Movements; An Overview of Changes; Turkey; Iran; Afghanistan; Egypt |
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Syria and LebanonPalestine; VI. 1945-Today: New States and Trends, Women's Activism, and the Rise of Islamism; General Features; Non-Arab States; Iran; Afghanistan; Turkey; Arab States; Overview; Egypt; Iraq; Palestine; Jordan; Syria; Lebanon; North Africa; Tunisia; Algeria; Morocco; Libya; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Oman; The Small Gulf States; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates (UAE); Qatar; Bahrain; Islamist and Non-Islamist Trends in the Middle East; Conclusion; Notes to Book One; Bibliography of Books; BOOK TWO: Approaches to the Study of Middle Eastern Women |
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Part 1. Shifting Boundaries in Sex and GenderPart 2. Scholarship, Relativism, and Universalism; Part 3. Women in the Limelight: Recent Books on Middle Eastern Women's History since 1800; Part 4. Problems in the Study of Middle Eastern Women; Part 5. Sexuality and Shi'i Social Protest in Iran (Coauthored with Parvin Paidar [(Nahid Yeganeh]); BOOK THREE: Autobiographical Recollections; Part 1. Autobiographical Interview; Part 2. Supplement to the Interview; Bibliography of Works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Notes |
Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women withi |
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Print version record |
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Women -- Middle East -- History
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Feminism -- Middle East -- History
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Feminism
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Women
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Middle East
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400845057 |
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140084505X |
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