TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meriwether,Margaret Lee
AU  - Tucker,Judith E.
TI  - Social history of women and gender in the modern Middle East
SN  - 081332100X (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 305.40956 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boulder, Colo
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Feminism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; (Margaret; L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker.); A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa; (Julia Clancy-Smith.); Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Womens Studies; (Mervat F. Hatem.); The Other Awakening: The Emergence; of Womens Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940; (Ellen L. Fleischmann.); Debating; Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices; (Annelies Moors.); Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Womens Voices Rising; (Mary Elaine Hegland.)
N2  - An overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the 19th- and 20th-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area - gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements.
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/99017105-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/99017105-d.html
ER  -