Research Catalog

Title

Women and the family in the Middle East : new voices of change / edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, c1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008

Description

xii, 356 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

An old culture investigated from a new perspective of Feminism in relation to the traditional values of Islam. -- Amazon.com.

Subject

• Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
• Börngen, ..
• Women
• Social Conditions
• Family
• Women > Iran
• Women > Arab countries
• Families > Arab countries
• Middle East
• Arab countries > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Poem / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Algerian women discuss the need for change / Fatiha Akeb and Malika Abdelaziz -- The Arab family and the challenge of social transformation / Halim Barakat -- The charm / Ilfat Idilbi -- New images, old reflections : working middle-class women in Egypt / Safia K. Moshen -- The ringing / Fathiyyah ʻAwada -- Fatima : a life history of an Egyptian women from Bulaq / Evelyn Early -- Divorce / Leila Abouzeid -- Continuity and change in women's education in the Arab states / Nagat Al-Sanabary -- Growing up female in Egypt / Nawal Al-Saʻdawi -- Ideology, value changes, and women's social position in Libyan society / Mustafa O. Attir -- Women and public health in Morocco : one family's experience / Donna Lee Bown -- Women's education and its relation to fertility : report from Baghdad / Ann Bragdon Al-Kadhi -- The social and political implications of female circumcision : the case of the Sudan / Nahid F. Toubia -- Poems / Fadwa Tuqan -- The Kalashnikov generation / Maroun Baghdadi and Nayla de Freige -- Those memories / Emily Nasrallah -- Encounters with Palestinian women under occupation / Rosemary Sayigh -- The aunt of Rafiq / Daisy Al-Amir -- Revitalizing old ideas : developments in Middle Eastern family law / Eric Mueller -- Recent amendments to Egypt's personal status law / Aziza Hussein -- An Islamic activist : Zaynab al-Ghazali / Valerie J. Hoffman -- The position of women in Shiʻa Iran : views of the ʻUlama / Shireen Mahdavi -- Women and work : strategies and choices in a lower-class quarter of Cairo / Andrea B. Rugh -- The shoes / Iqbal Barakah -- Cairo's factory women / Barbara Lethem Ibrahim -- I remember I was a point, I was a circle / Hoda Al-Namani -- An interview with Hoda al-Namani / Amin Al-Rihani -- Women's folk narratives and social change / Sabra Webber -- Conformity and confrontation : a comparison of two Iranian women poets / Farzaneh Milani -- Poems / Lamiʻa Abbas Al-ʻImarah -- A forbidden glimpse, a broken sound / Assia Djebar.

ISBN

• 0292755287 :
• 0292755295 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^84011944^

OCLC

• 10851447
• SCSB-10918610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library