Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender / edited by Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1992.Description: xii, 343 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
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  • HQ1726.B265.W664 1991
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Contents:
Nikki R. Keddie -- Islam and patriarchy: a comparative perspective Deniz Kandiyoti -- Political action and public example: 'A'isha and the battle of the camel Denise A. Spellberg -- Early Islam and the position of women: the problem of interpretation Leila Ahmed -- Gendering the ungendered body: hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law Paula Sanders -- Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women: female anarchy versus male Shar'i order in Muslim prescriptive treatises Huda Lutfi -- Class solidarity versus gender gain: women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt Carl F. Petry -- Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period Jonathan P. Berkey -- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914/161 Donald Quataert -- The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women, 177 Nermin abadan-Unat -- The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran, 195 Erika Friedl.
Mary Elaine Hegland -- Ties that bound: women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Nablus, 233 Judith E. Tucker -- The house of Zainab: female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria Julia Clancy
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction HQ1726.5.W66 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000837985

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: deciphering Middle Eastern women's history Nikki R. Keddie -- Islam and patriarchy: a comparative perspective Deniz Kandiyoti -- Political action and public example: 'A'isha and the battle of the camel Denise A. Spellberg -- Early Islam and the position of women: the problem of interpretation Leila Ahmed -- Gendering the ungendered body: hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law Paula Sanders -- Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women: female anarchy versus male Shar'i order in Muslim prescriptive treatises Huda Lutfi -- Class solidarity versus gender gain: women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt Carl F. Petry -- Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period Jonathan P. Berkey -- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914/161 Donald Quataert -- The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women, 177 Nermin abadan-Unat -- The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran, 195 Erika Friedl.

Political roles of Aliabad women: the public-private dichotomy transcended, 215 Mary Elaine Hegland -- Ties that bound: women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Nablus, 233 Judith E. Tucker -- The house of Zainab: female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria Julia Clancy

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