Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender /
Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender / [print]
edited by Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1992.
- xii, 343 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: deciphering Middle Eastern women's history Islam and patriarchy: a comparative perspective Political action and public example: 'A'isha and the battle of the camel Early Islam and the position of women: the problem of interpretation Gendering the ungendered body: hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women: female anarchy versus male Shar'i order in Muslim prescriptive treatises Class solidarity versus gender gain: women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914/161 The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women, 177 The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran, 195 Nikki R. Keddie -- Deniz Kandiyoti -- Denise A. Spellberg -- Leila Ahmed -- Paula Sanders -- Huda Lutfi -- Carl F. Petry -- Jonathan P. Berkey -- Donald Quataert -- Nermin abadan-Unat -- Erika Friedl. Political roles of Aliabad women: the public-private dichotomy transcended, 215 Ties that bound: women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Nablus, 233 The house of Zainab: female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria Mary Elaine Hegland -- Judith E. Tucker -- Julia Clancy
91019665
GB92-Z6960
Women--History.--Middle East
Women in Islam.
HQ1726 HQ1726.B265.W664 1991
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: deciphering Middle Eastern women's history Islam and patriarchy: a comparative perspective Political action and public example: 'A'isha and the battle of the camel Early Islam and the position of women: the problem of interpretation Gendering the ungendered body: hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women: female anarchy versus male Shar'i order in Muslim prescriptive treatises Class solidarity versus gender gain: women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914/161 The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women, 177 The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran, 195 Nikki R. Keddie -- Deniz Kandiyoti -- Denise A. Spellberg -- Leila Ahmed -- Paula Sanders -- Huda Lutfi -- Carl F. Petry -- Jonathan P. Berkey -- Donald Quataert -- Nermin abadan-Unat -- Erika Friedl. Political roles of Aliabad women: the public-private dichotomy transcended, 215 Ties that bound: women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Nablus, 233 The house of Zainab: female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria Mary Elaine Hegland -- Judith E. Tucker -- Julia Clancy
91019665
GB92-Z6960
Women--History.--Middle East
Women in Islam.
HQ1726 HQ1726.B265.W664 1991