Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender /
This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival rec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : deciphering Middle Eastern women's history / Nikki R. Keddie
- Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti
- Political action and public example : 'A'isha and the battle of the camel / Denise A. Spellberg
- Early Islam and the position of women : the problem of interpretation / Leila Ahmed
- Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / Paula Sanders
- Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women : female anarchy versus male Sharí order in Muslim prescriptive treatises / Huda Lutfi
- Class solidarity versus gender gain : women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt / Carl F. Petry
- Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period / Jonathan P. Berkey.
- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert
- The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / Nermin Abadan-Unat
- The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran / Erika Friedl
- Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / Mary Elaine Hegland
- Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / Judith E. Tucker
- The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
- The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / Beth Baron
- Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / Virginia Danielson
- Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson.