Women in the Muslim World

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Women in the Muslim World

Edited by: Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1978

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Nikki Keddie and Lois Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One General Perspectives on Legal and Socioeconomic Change
1 Women and Law Reform in Contemporary Islam Noel Coulson and Doreen Hinchcliffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2 Legal Reform as an Indicator of Women’s Status in Muslim Nations Elizabeth H. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
3 The Status and Fertility Patterns of Muslim Women Nadia H. Youssef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4 Women and Social Change in Morocco Vanessa Maher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5 Women in Turkish Society Fatma Mansur Coşar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
6 Women’s Emancipation in Tunisia Mark A. Tessler, Janet Rogers and Daniel Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7 Women in Algeria Juliette Minces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8 Education and Employment among Kuwaiti Women Κamla Nath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
9 On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women Michael M. J. Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
10 Legal and Social Positions of Iranian Women Behnaz Pakizegi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Part Two Historical Perspectives
11 Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age Ian C. Dengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
12 Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey Ülkü Ü. Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
13 The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
14 Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt Thomas Philipp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15 Women and Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 Mangol Bayat-Philipp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Part Three Case Studies: Nomads, Villagers, Town and City Dwellers
16 The Status of Women in Four Middle East Communities Emrys L. Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
17 Women among Qashqa’i Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran Lois Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
18 The Women’s Subsociety among the Shahsevan Nomads of Iran Nancy Tapper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374
19 Changing Sex Roles in Bedouin Society in Syria and Lebanon Dawn Chatty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
20 Working Women in a Moroccan Village Susan Schaefer Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan Carroll McC. Pastner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
22 Iranian Women in Family Alliance and Sexual Politics Paul Vieille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
23 Women, Class, and Power: Examples from the Hatay, Turkey Barbara G. Aswad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
24 A Comparative Perspective on Women in Provincial Iran and Turkey Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	482
25 The Domestic Social Environment of Women and Girls in Isfahan, Iran John Gulick and Margaret E. Gulick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
26 Self-images of Traditional Urban Women in Cairo Saws an el-Messiri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	522
27 Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon Suad Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Part Four: Ideology, Religion, and Ritual
28 The Negotiation of Reality: Male-Female Relations in Sefrou, Morocco Lawrence Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
29 Women, Sufism, and Decision-Making in Moroccan Islam Daisy Hilse Dwyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
30 Sex Differences and Folk Illness in an Egyptian Village Soheir A. Morsy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel Evelyne Accad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
32 Women in Contemporary Persian Folktales Erika Friedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
33 Being Female in a Muslim Minority in China Barbara L. K. Pillsbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	677
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683

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October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674733091

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1978

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674733077

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Reprint 2013

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Front matter:

11

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698

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https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733091

eBook ISBN: 9780674733091

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Muslim women.

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