Women in the Muslim World / / ed. by Nikki Keddie, Lois Beck.

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• MitwirkendeR: Accad, Evelyne,; Aswad, Barbara G.,; Bates, Ülkü Ü.,; Bayat-Philipp, Mangol,; Beck, Lois,; Chatty, Dawn,; Coulson, Noel,; DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo,; Dengler, Ian C.,; Fischer, Michael M. J.,; Friedl, Erika,; Gulick, John,; Gulick, Margaret E.,; H. White, Elizabeth,; Hilse Dwyer, Daisy,; Hinchcliffe, Doreen,; Joseph, Suad,; Keddie, Nikki,; Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Afaf,; Maher, Vanessa,; Mansur Coşar, Fatma,; McC. Pastner, Carroll,; Minces, Juliette,; Morsy, Soheir A.,; Nath, Κamla,; Pakizegi, Behnaz,; Peters, Emrys L.,; Philipp, Thomas,; Pillsbury, Barbara L. K.,; Rogers, Janet,; Rosen, Lawrence,; Schaefer Davis, Susan,; Schneider, Daniel,; Tapper, Nancy,; Tessler, Mark A.,; Vieille, Paul,; Youssef, Nadia H.,; an el-Messiri, Saws,
• HerausgeberIn: Beck, Lois,; Keddie, Nikki,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (698 p.) :; Illustrated
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One General Perspectives on Legal and Socioeconomic Change --; 1 Women and Law Reform in Contemporary Islam --; 2 Legal Reform as an Indicator of Women’s Status in Muslim Nations --; 3 The Status and Fertility Patterns of Muslim Women --; 4 Women and Social Change in Morocco --; 5 Women in Turkish Society --; 6 Women’s Emancipation in Tunisia --; 7 Women in Algeria --; 8 Education and Employment among Kuwaiti Women --; 9 On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women --; 10 Legal and Social Positions of Iranian Women --; Part Two Historical Perspectives --; 11 Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age --; 12 Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey --; 13 The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt --; 14 Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt --; 15 Women and Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 --; Part Three Case Studies: Nomads, Villagers, Town and City Dwellers --; 16 The Status of Women in Four Middle East Communities --; 17 Women among Qashqa’i Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran --; 18 The Women’s Subsociety among the Shahsevan Nomads of Iran --; 19 Changing Sex Roles in Bedouin Society in Syria and Lebanon --; 20 Working Women in a Moroccan Village --; 21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan --; 22 Iranian Women in Family Alliance and Sexual Politics --; 23 Women, Class, and Power: Examples from the Hatay, Turkey --; 24 A Comparative Perspective on Women in Provincial Iran and Turkey --; 25 The Domestic Social Environment of Women and Girls in Isfahan, Iran --; 26 Self-images of Traditional Urban Women in Cairo --; 27 Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon --; Part Four: Ideology, Religion, and Ritual --; 28 The Negotiation of Reality: Male-Female Relations in Sefrou, Morocco --; 29 Women, Sufism, and Decision-Making in Moroccan Islam --; 30 Sex Differences and Folk Illness in an Egyptian Village --; 31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel --; 32 Women in Contemporary Persian Folktales --; 33 Being Female in a Muslim Minority in China --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674733091; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674733091
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nikki Keddie, Lois Beck.