| Description |
xii, 343 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : deciphering Middle Eastern women's history / N. R. Keddie -- Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective / D. Kandiyoti -- Political action and public example : 'A'isha and the battle of the camel / D. A. Spellberg -- Early Islam and the position of women : the Problem of interpretation / L. Ahmed -- Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / P. Sanders -- Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women : female anarchy versus male Shari order in Muslin prescriptive treatises / H. Lutfi -- Class solidarity versus gender gain : women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt / C. F. Petry -- Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period / J. P. Berkey. |
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Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / D. Quataert -- The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / N. Abadan-Unat -- The dynamics of women's spheres of acton in rural Iran / E. Friedl -- Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / M. E. Hegland -- Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / J. E. Tucker -- The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / J. Clancy-Smith -- The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / B. Baron -- Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / V. Danielson -- Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / C. Nelson. |
| Subject |
Women -- Middle East -- History.
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| Added Author |
Keddie, Nikki R.
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Baron, Beth.
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| ISBN |
0300050054 |
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0300050062 (alk. paper) |
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