Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers /

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Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies.
Subject:	Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions. Women -- Arab countries -- Economic conditions. Feminism -- Arab countries. Women. Feminism. Women -- Economic conditions. Women -- Social conditions. Middle East. Arab countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101871

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Other authors / contributors:	Tucker, Judith E. Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
ISBN:	0585019568 9780585019567 9780253360960 025336096X 9780253207760 0253207762
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC." Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Arab women. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993 025336096X

Table of 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.

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