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Title Women and the family in the Middle East : new voices of change / edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1985.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 W872WF    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Poem / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Algerian women discuss the need for change / Fatiha Akeb and Malika Abdelaziz -- The Arab family and the challenge of social transformation / Halim Barakat -- The charm / Ilfat Idilbi -- New images, old reflections : working middle-class women in Egypt / Safia K. Moshen -- The ringing / Fathiyyah ʻAwada -- Fatima : a life history of an Egyptian women from Bulaq / Evelyn Early -- Divorce / Leila Abouzeid -- Continuity and change in women's education in the Arab states / Nagat Al-Sanabary -- Growing up female in Egypt / Nawal Al-Saʻdawi -- Ideology, value changes, and women's social position in Libyan society / Mustafa O. Attir -- Women and public health in Morocco : one family's experience / Donna Lee Bown -- Women's education and its relation to fertility : report from Baghdad / Ann Bragdon Al-Kadhi -- The social and political implications of female circumcision : the case of the Sudan / Nahid F. Toubia -- Poems / Fadwa Tuqan -- The Kalashnikov generation / Maroun Baghdadi and Nayla de Freige -- Those memories / Emily Nasrallah -- Encounters with Palestinian women under occupation / Rosemary Sayigh -- The aunt of Rafiq / Daisy Al-Amir -- Revitalizing old ideas : developments in Middle Eastern family law / Eric Mueller -- Recent amendments to Egypt's personal status law / Aziza Hussein -- An Islamic activist : Zaynab al-Ghazali / Valerie J. Hoffman -- The position of women in Shiʻa Iran : views of the ʻUlama / Shireen Mahdavi -- Women and work : strategies and choices in a lower-class quarter of Cairo / Andrea B. Rugh -- The shoes / Iqbal Barakah -- Cairo's factory women / Barbara Lethem Ibrahim -- I remember I was a point, I was a circle / Hoda Al-Namani -- An interview with Hoda al-Namani / Amin Al-Rihani -- Women's folk narratives and social change / Sabra Webber -- Conformity and confrontation : a comparison of two Iranian women poets / Farzaneh Milani -- Poems / Lamiʻa Abbas Al-ʻImarah -- A forbidden glimpse, a broken sound / Assia Djebar.
Summary An old culture investigated from a new perspective of Feminism in relation to the traditional values of Islam. -- Amazon.com.
Subject Women -- Arab countries.
Families -- Arab countries.
Arab countries -- Social life and customs.
Women -- Iran.
Family -- Arab countries -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Family. (DNLM)D005190
Social Conditions. (DNLM)D012924
Women. (DNLM)D014930
Middle East. (DNLM)D008877
Familia -- Países árabes.
Mujeres -- Irán.
Países árabes -- Vida social y costumbres.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Arab countries. (OCoLC)fst01240128
Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
Familie (DE-588)4016397-0
Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
Islam (DE-588)4027743-4
Arabische Staaten (DE-588)4068789-2
Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1
Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
Gezin.
Vrouwen.
Sociale verandering.
Frau.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008.
Other Form: Online version: Women and the family in the Middle East. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1985 (OCoLC)646917557
ISBN 0292755287
9780292755284
0292755295 (pbk.)
9780292755291 (pbk.)
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