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.
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Families -- Arab countries.
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Arab countries -- Social life and customs.
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Women -- Iran.
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Family -- Arab countries -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
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Family. (DNLM)D005190
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Social Conditions. (DNLM)D012924
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Women. (DNLM)D014930
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Middle East. (DNLM)D008877
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Familia -- Países árabes.
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Mujeres -- Irán.
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Países árabes -- Vida social y costumbres.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Arab countries. (OCoLC)fst01240128
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Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
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Familie (DE-588)4016397-0
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Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
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Islam (DE-588)4027743-4
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Arabische Staaten (DE-588)4068789-2
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Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1
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Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
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Gezin.
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Vrouwen.
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Sociale verandering.
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Frau.
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Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Added Author |
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Women and the family in the Middle East. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1985 (OCoLC)646917557 |
ISBN |
0292755287 |
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9780292755284 |
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0292755295 (pbk.) |
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9780292755291 (pbk.) |
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