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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Keddie, Nikki R. (Editor ), Baron, Beth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.