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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keddie, Nikki R.

Baron, Beth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Middle East--History.

Women.

Feminism--Middle East--History.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology-and not least, women's attitudes-have expanded or circumscribed women's roles and behavior through the ages.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Organization of the Volume

1. Introduction: Deciphering Middle Eastern Women's History

2. Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective

3. Political Action and Public Example: 'A'isha and the Battle of the Camel

4. Early Islam and the Position of Women: The Problem of Interpretation

5. Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law

6. Manners and Customs of Fourteenth-Century Cairene Women: Female Anarchy versus Male Shar'i Order in Muslim Prescriptive Treatises

7. Class Solidarity versus Gender Gain: Women as Custodians of Property in Later Medieval Egypt

8. Women and Islamic Education in the Mamluk Period

9. Ottoman Women, Households, and Textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914

10. The Impact of Legal and Educational Reforms on Turkish Women

11. The Dynamics of Women's Spheres of Action in Rural Iran

12. Political Roles of Aliabad Women: The Public-Private Dichotomy Transcended

13. Ties That Bound: Women and Family in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Nablus

14. The House of Zainab: Female Authority and Saintly Succession in Colonial Algeria

15. The Making and Breaking of Marital Bonds in Modern Egypt

16. Artists and Entrepreneurs: Female Singers in Cairo during the 1920's

17. Biography and Women's History: On Interpreting Doria Shafik

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-300-05005-4

1-283-95034-0

0-300-15746-0

OCLC:

952756516