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245	0	0	_aWomen in the Middle East : _bperceptions, realities, and struggles for liberation / _cedited by Haleh Afshar.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c1993.
300			_axiii, 250 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505		0	_aDevelopment studies and women in the Middle East : the dilemmas of research and development / Haleh Afshar -- A Western invention of Arab womanhood : the 'Oriental' female / Malika Mehdid -- Women, marriage and the law in post-Revolutionary Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Women's everyday religious discourse in Iran / Zahra Kamalkhani -- Attitudes to female employment in four Middle Eastern countries / Ivy Papps -- Women, work and power in the Rafsanjan Basin of Iran / Shahrashoub Razavi -- Women's resistance in the Arab World and in Egypt / Nawal El Saadawi -- The Saddam Hussein phenomenon and male-female relations in the Arab World / Ghada Karmi -- Women in the resistance movement in Iran / Haideh Moghissi -- The emergence of a joint Israeli-Palestinian women's peace movement during the Intifada / Juliet J. Pope -- The interrogation of women 'security' detainees by the Israeli General Security Service / Teresa Thornhill -- Women's struggles and strategies in the rise of fundamentalism in the Muslim World : from entryism to Internationalism / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas.
520			_aThis collection of essays sets about exploding the myths created by years of orientalist writings about Middle Eastern women. The romanticised images of these gentle victims of the harems are contrasted with the exacting demands of daily battles for survival and the long-running struggles for political and economic liberation. The chapters of this book discuss the strategies they use to accommodate the edicts of Islam, both in their personal and public lives and the paths they have chosen in their arduous search for peace and progress. The authors, all of whom are actively engaged in this process, offer different solutions and advocate various ways forward. But they all share a common goal. Their chapters in this book help to dispel the image of the undulating perfumed sexual prey that the oriental woman is assumed to be, and carve a rightful place for the embattled Middle Eastern woman in the international arena.
650		0	_aWomen _zMiddle East _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aMuslim women _zMiddle East.
650		0	_aFeminism _zMiddle East.
700	1		_aAfshar, Haleh, _d1944- _93006 _eauthor
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