| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 15
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Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book examines, in comparative perspective, the different ideals about family and society and how they have impacted on real family life across a number of countries in the Middle East. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Introduction. Historical orientations to the study of family change : ideational forces considered / Kathryn M. Yount and Hoda Rashad -- pt. 2. Transnationalism, nationalism, and new family ideals. Familism and critical Arab family studies / Suad Joseph -- International feminism and the women's movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 : a reappraisal of categories and legacies / Mary Ann Fay -- From birth control to family planning : population, gender, and the politics of reproduction in Egypt / Laura Bier -- Family law and family planning policy in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran / Homa Hoodfar -- From nationalism to feminism : family law in Tunisia / Mounira M. Charrad -- pt. 3. Continuity and change in daily family life. Why kin marriages? Rationales in rural Upper Egypt / Hania Sholkamy -- Social change and parent-adolescent dynamics in Egypt / Sahar el Tawila, Barbara Ibrahim, and Hind Wassef -- Women's family power and gender preference in Minya, Egypt / Kathryn M. Yount -- Divorce and the state of the family in modern century Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- The family and social change in post-revolutionary Iran / Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Peter McDonald, and Meimanat Hossein-Chavoshi -- From sexual submission to voluntary commitment : the transformation of family ties in contemporary Tunisia / Lilia Labidi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- Middle East.
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Families. |
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Middle East. |
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Muslim families -- Middle East.
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Muslim families. |
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Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yount, Kathryn M.
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Rashad, H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Family in the Middle East. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008 9780415774864 0415774861 (DLC) 2008002329 (OCoLC)181422353 |
| ISBN |
9780203894057 (electronic book) |
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0203894057 (electronic book) |
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0415774861 (hardback) |
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9780415774864 (hardback) |
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