Social history of women and gender in the modern Middle East / edited by Margaret L. Meriwether, Judith E. Tucker.

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.).

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.