| Description |
xi, 698 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Women and law reform in contemporary Islam / Noel Coulson & Doreen Hinchcliffe -- Legal reform as an indicator of women's status in Muslim nations / Elizabeth H. White -- The status and fertility patterns of Muslim women / Nadia H. Youssef -- Women and social change in Morocco / Vanessa Maher -- Women in Turkish society / Fatma Mansur Coşar -- Women's emancipation in Tunisia / Mark A. Tessler, Janet Rogers & Daniel Schneider -- Women in Algeria / Juliette Minces -- Education and employment among Kuwaiti women / Kamla Nath -- On changing the concept and position of Persian women / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Legal and social positions of Iranian women / Behnaz Pakizegi -- Turkish women in the Ottoman empire : the classical age / Ian C. Dengler -- Women as patrons of architecture in Turkey / Ülkü Ü. Bates -- The revolutionary gentlewomen in Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Feminism and Nationalist politics in Egypt / Thomas Philipp -- Women and revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 / Mangol Bayat-Philipp -- |
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The status of women in four Middle East communities / Emrys L. Peters -- Women among Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralists in Iran / Lois Beck -- The women's subsociety among the Shahsevan nomads of Iran / Nancy Tapper -- Changing sex roles in Bedouin society in Syria and Lebanon / Dawn Chatty -- Working women in a Moroccan village / Susan Schaefer Davis -- The status of women and property on a Baluchistan oasis in Pakistan / Carroll McC. Pastner -- Iranian women in family alliance and sexual politics / Paul Vielle -- Women, class, and power : examples from the Hatay, Turkey / Barbara C. Aswad -- A comparative perspective on women in provincial Iran and Turkey / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- The domestic social environment of women and girls in Isfastan, Iran / John Gulick and Margaret E. Gulick -- Self-images of traditional urban women in Cairo / Sawsan el-Messiri -- Women and the neighborhood street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- |
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The negotiation of reality : male-female relations in Sefrou, Morocco / Lawrence Rosen -- Women, Sulfism, and decision making in Moroccan Islam / Daisy Hilse Dwyer -- Sex differences and folk illnesses in an Egyptian village / Soheir A. Morsy -- The theme of sexual oppression in the North African novel / Evelyne Accad -- Women in contemporary Persian folktales / Erika Friedl -- Being female in a Muslim minority in China / Barbara L.K. Pillsbury. |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Muslim women. |
| Added Author |
Beck, Lois, 1944-
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Keddie, Nikki R.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Women in the Muslim world. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978 (OCoLC)654922817 |
| ISBN |
0674954807 |
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9780674954809 |
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