A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780813321011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 231 str.

Margaret L. Meriwether; Judith Tucker

Opis

In this important new work, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker synthesize and make accessible the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years. Using new theoretical approaches and methodologies as well as nontraditional sources, scholars studying women and gender issues in Middle Eastern societies have made great progress in shedding light on these complex subjects. A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East provides an overview of this 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 areagender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movementsand each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic. Although structured around the individual author's own work, the chapters also include overviews and assessments of other research, highlights of ongoing debates and key issues, and comparisons across regions of the Middle East. An insightful introduction centers the various chapters around key theoretical, methodological, and historical issues and makes connections with other areas of social historical research on the Middle East and with research on gender and women's history in other parts of the world.Although there are many studies available on women and gender, A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East provides a breadth of coverage and assessment of the field that is not found elsewhere."

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa -- Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women’s Studies -- The Other “Awakening”: The Emergence of Women’s Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900–1940 -- Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices -- Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women’s Voices Rising

O autorze

Meriwether, Margaret Lee | Tucker, Judith