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Gender, religion and change in the Middle East : two hundred years of history / edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 26.
- Cross-cultural perspectives on women, 1068-8536 ; v. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Middle East.
- Women.
- Women--Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- English ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The complicated link between women and religion in the Middle East has been a source of debate for centuries, and has special resonance today. Whether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women - or a combination of both - depends on time, place and circumstance.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud
- Justice without drama : observations from Gaza city Sharia Court / Nahda Younis Shehada
- From the army of G-d to the Israeli armed forces : an interaction between two cultural models / Yohai Hakak
- To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper : the Anglican male ideal and St. George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug
- Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s-1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski
- Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron
- Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
- The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White
- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen
- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel
- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib
- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask
- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612596537
- 9781282596535
- 1282596535
- 9781845207281
- 1845207289
- OCLC:
- 476022328
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