Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East
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...
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Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker provide an accessible overview of the 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 area—gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements—and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.
ForewordIntroduction11A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa252Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women's Studies633The Other "Awakening": The Emergence of Women's Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940894Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices1415Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women's Voices Rising177Index213
