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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• 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

Table of Contents

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