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