Arab Women by Judith E Tucker
The notion of old boundaries and new frontiers posits the present as a time of change for women in the Arab world. Under the headings of gender discourses, women's work and development, politics and power, and gender roles and relations, a distinguished group of feminist scholars address Arab women's changing lives. Contents include: Judith E. Tucker, Introduction; Barbara F. Stowasser, Women's Issues in Modern Islamic Thought; Mervat Hatem, Toward the Development of Post-Islamist and Post-Nationalist Feminist Discourses in the Middle East; Julie M. Peteet, Authenticity and Gender: The Presentation of Culture; Margaret L. Meriwether, Women and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Syria: The Case of Aleppo; Evelyn Aleene Early, Getting It Together: Baladi Egyptian Businesswomen; Souad Dajani, Palestinian Women under Israeli Occupation: Implications for Development; Margot Badran, Independent Women: More Than a Century of Feminism in Egypt; and, Sondra Hale, Transforming Culture or Fostering Second-Hand Consciousness Women's Front; Organizations and Revolutionary Parties - The Sudan Case. The contents also include: Rosemary Sayigh, Palestinian Women and Politics in Lebanon; Judith E. Tucker, The Arab Family in History: therness and the Study of the Family; Susan Schaefer Davis, Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town; and, Evelyne Accad, Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature.
Tucker, Judith E.: - Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History in the Department of History and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Her previous publications include Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985) and In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780253207760 |
| ISBN 10 | 0253207762 |
| Title | Arab Women |
| Author | Judith E Tucker |
| Series | Indiana Series In Arab And Islamic Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press |
| Year published | 1993-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
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