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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367314286
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Meriwether, Margaret Lee | Tucker, Judith

Table of Contents

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