A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East

by Margaret Lee Meriwether

Overview

Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area—gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements—and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429982231
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Meriwether, Margaret Lee | Tucker, Judith

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa -- Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women’s Studies -- The Other “Awakening”: The Emergence of Women’s Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900–1940 -- Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices -- Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women’s Voices Rising