Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender
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Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender
Yale University Press, c1991
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization遡
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Deciphering Middle Eastern Women's History Chapter 2. Organisation of the Volume Chapter 3. Islam and Patriarchy THE FIRST ISLAMIC CENTURIES (Chapters 4-6) THE MAMLUK PERIOD (Chapters 7-9) MODERN TURKEY AND IRAN (Chapters 10-13) THE MODERN ARAB WORLD (Chapters 14-18) Index.
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