| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) |
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Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies |
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Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies.
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| 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 -- 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions
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Women -- Arab countries -- Economic conditions
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Feminism -- Arab countries
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Women.
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Women
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women (female humans)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Women
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Feminism
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Social conditions
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Frau
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Vrouwen.
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Islam.
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Kvinner.
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Araberstatene.
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Femmes -- Pays arabes -- Conditions économiques.
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Féminisme -- Pays arabes.
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Femmes arabes -- Conditions sociales.
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Maghrébines -- Conditions économiques.
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Femmes -- Pays arabes -- Conditions sociales.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
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Middle East |
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Middle East
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Arab countries
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Arabische Staaten
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tucker, Judith E.
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Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
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| ISBN |
0585019568 |
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9780585019567 |
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