Women in the Middle East : : Past and Present / / Nikki R. Keddie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Keddie, Nikki R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 24 halftones.

Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• BOOK ONE. Women in the Middle East: A History
• Introduction: Issues in Studying Middle Eastern Women’s History
• I. Regional Background and the Beginnings of Islam
• II. From the Pious Caliphs through the Dynastic Caliphates
• III. From the Turkish and Mongol Invasions to 1798
• IV. Change in the Long Nineteenth Century 1798–1914
• V. 1914–45: Nationalism and Women’s Movements
• VI. 1945–Today: New States and Trends, Women’s Activism, and the Rise of Islamism
• Conclusion
• Notes to Book One
• Bibliography of Books
• BOOK TWO. Approaches to the Study of Middle Eastern Women
• Part 1. Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender
• Part 2. Scholarship, Relativism, and Universalism
• Part 3. Women in the Limelight: Recent Books on Middle Eastern Women’s History since 1800
• Part 4. Problems in the Study of Middle Eastern Women
• Part 5. Sexuality and Shi′i Social Protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh])
• BOOK THREE. Autobiographical Recollections
• Part 1. Autobiographical Interview
• Part 2. Supplement to the Interview
• Bibliography of Works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995
• Index