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Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers / edited by Judith E. Tucker.

Title
Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers / edited by Judith E. Tucker.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
  • Tucker, Judith E.
Description
xviii, 264 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Under the headings of gender discourses, women's work and development, politics and power, and gender roles and relations, a distinguished group of feminist scholars address Arab women's lives.
Series Statement
Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies
Uniform Title
Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies.
Subject
  • Arabia
  • Feminism > Arab countries
  • Women
  • Women > Arab countries > Economic conditions
  • Women > Arab countries > Social conditions
  • Women's Rights > Arabia
Note
  • "Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Women's issues in modern Islamic thought / Barbara F. Stowasser -- Toward the development of post-Islamist and post-nationalist feminist discourses in the Middle East / Mervat Hatem -- Authenticity and gender : the presentation of culture / Julie M. Peteet -- Women and economic change in nineteenth-century Syria : the case of Aleppo / Margaret L. Meriwether -- Getting it together : Baladi Egyptian businesswomen / Evelyn Aleene Early -- Palestinian women under Israeli occupation : implications for development / Souad Dajani -- Independent women : more than a century of feminism in Egypt / Margot Badran -- Transforming culture or fostering second-hand consciousness? : Women's front organizations and revolutionary parties - the Sudan case / Sondra Hale --
  • (cont.) Palestinian women and politics in Lebanon / Rosemary Sayrigh -- The Arab family in history : "otherness" and the study of the family / Judith E. Tucker -- Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Rebellion, maturity, and the social context : Arab women's special contribution to literature / Evelyne Accad. ₎
ISBN
  • 025336096X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253207762 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
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