Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One General Perspectives on Legal and Socioeconomic Change
6. 1 Women and Law Reform in Contemporary Islam 37
7. 2 Legal Reform as an Indicator of Women’s Status in Muslim Nations 52
8. 3 The Status and Fertility Patterns of Muslim Women 69
9. 4 Women and Social Change in Morocco 100
10. 5 Women in Turkish Society 124
11. 6 Women’s Emancipation in Tunisia 141
12. 7 Women in Algeria 159
13. 8 Education and Employment among Kuwaiti Women 172
14. 9 On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women 189
15. 10 Legal and Social Positions of Iranian Women 216
16. Part Two Historical Perspectives
17. 11 Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 229
18. 12 Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey 245
19. 13 The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt 261
20. 14 Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt 277
21. 15 Women and Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 295
22. Part Three Case Studies: Nomads, Villagers, Town and City Dwellers
23. 16 The Status of Women in Four Middle East Communities 311
24. 17 Women among Qashqa’i Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran 351
25. 18 The Women’s Subsociety among the Shahsevan Nomads of Iran 374
26. 19 Changing Sex Roles in Bedouin Society in Syria and Lebanon 399
27. 20 Working Women in a Moroccan Village 416
28. 21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan 434
29. 22 Iranian Women in Family Alliance and Sexual Politics 451
30. 23 Women, Class, and Power: Examples from the Hatay, Turkey 473
31. 24 A Comparative Perspective on Women in Provincial Iran and Turkey 482
32. 25 The Domestic Social Environment of Women and Girls in Isfahan, Iran 501
33. 26 Self-images of Traditional Urban Women in Cairo 522
34. 27 Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon 541
35. Part Four: Ideology, Religion, and Ritual
36. 28 The Negotiation of Reality: Male-Female Relations in Sefrou, Morocco 561
37. 29 Women, Sufism, and Decision-Making in Moroccan Islam 585
38. 30 Sex Differences and Folk Illness in an Egyptian Village 599
39. 31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel 617
40. 32 Women in Contemporary Persian Folktales 629
41. 33 Being Female in a Muslim Minority in China 651
42. Contributors 677
43. Index 683