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Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers / edited by Judith E. Tucker.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 025336096X
  • ISBN: 9780253360960
  • ISBN: 0253207762
  • ISBN: 9780253207760
  • ISBN: 9780585019567
  • ISBN: 0585019568
  • Physical Description: xviii, 264 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC."
Subject:
Women > Arab countries > Social conditions.
Women > Arab countries > Economic conditions.
Feminism > Arab countries.
Feminism.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Arab countries.
Women.
Women's Rights.
Arabia.
Genre:
Aufsatzsammlung.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library HQ 1784 .A73 1993 256404 Stacks Available -

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