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."

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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.

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• Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies
• Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies.