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Item Details
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ARAB WOMEN
OLD BOUNDARIES, NEW FRONTIERS |
| By: |
Judith E. Tucker |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253207762 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253207760 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1993 |
| Pages: |
282 |
| Description: |
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 lives. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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