| Description |
xviii, 264 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies
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Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies.
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| Note |
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Arab countries. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women, Arab -- Economic conditions.
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Women, Arab. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Feminism -- Arab countries.
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Feminism. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Tucker, Judith E.
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Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
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| ISBN |
025336096X cloth alkaline paper |
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0253207762 paper alkaline paper |
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