| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) |
| Series |
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 |
| Analysis |
Feminism Arab countries |
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Women Arab Economic conditions |
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Women Arab Social conditions |
| Notes |
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Credits |
"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC." |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Arab countries.
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Women -- Arab countries -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
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Women, Arab -- Economic conditions.
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Women, Arab -- Social conditions.
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Women.
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Women's Rights.
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Women.
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| SUBJECT |
Arabia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001083 |
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Arabia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001083 |
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Middle East. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008877 |
| Author |
Tucker, Judith E.
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Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
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| LC no. |
92033583 |
| ISBN |
0253207762 |
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025336096X |
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0585019568 |
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9780253207760 |
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9780253360960 |
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9780585019567 |
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