Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers /
edited by Judith E. Tucker.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages).
- Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies .
- Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies. .
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women's issues in modern Islamic thought / Barbara F. Stowasser -- Toward the development of post-Islamist and post-nationalist feminist discourses in the Middle East / Mervat Hatem -- Authenticity and gender : the presentation of culture / Julie M. Peteet -- Women and economic change in nineteenth-century Syria : the case of Aleppo / Margaret L. Meriwether -- Getting it together : Baladi Egyptian businesswomen / Evelyn Aleene Early -- Palestinian women under Israeli occupation : implications for development / Souad Dajani -- Independent women : more than a century of feminism in Egypt / Margot Badran -- Transforming culture or fostering second-hand consciousness? : Women's front organizations and revolutionary parties -- the Sudan case -- Sondra Hale -- Palestinian women and politics in Lebanon / Rosemary Sayrigh -- The Arab family in history : "otherness" and the study of the family / Judith E. Tucker -- Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Rebellion, maturity, and the social context : Arab women's special contribution to literature / Evelyne Accad.
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Under the headings of gender discourses, women's work and development, politics and power, and gender roles and relations, a distinguished group of feminist scholars address Arab women's lives.
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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