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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170973103321

Autore

Tucker Judith E

Titolo

Social History of Women & Gender In The Modern Middle East / / Tucker, Judith E

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1999

ISBN

0-367-31428-2

0-429-50260-5

0-429-97115-X

0-429-98223-2

1-283-27672-0

0-8133-4649-5

1-4294-9085-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Social history of the modern Middle East

Altri autori (Persone)

MeriwetherMargaret Lee

Disciplina

305.420956

Soggetti

Women - Middle East - History

Women - Middle East - Social conditions

Sex role - Middle East - History

Feminism - Middle East

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from content provider.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa; 2 Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women's Studies; 3 The Other ""Awakening"": The Emergence of Women's Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940; 4 Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices; 5 Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women's Voices Rising; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of



research in this area?gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements?and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.