Women in the Middle East and North Africa

"These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -- Library Journal Academic NewswireTracing the evolution of the role of women beginning with ancient Middle Eastern societies through the 17th century, Nashat and Tucker examine the interplay between local practices and early Islamic beliefs and institutions, as well as economic activity, access to political power, and contributions to cultural life.

Guity Nashat is professor of Middle Eastern history at the University ofIllinois at Chicago. She has published The Beginnings of Modern Reform inIran and edited Women and Revolution in Iran.

Judith E. Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University. Sheauthored Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt and In the House of the Law:Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine and co-edited ArabWomen: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers.

Series Editors' Preface

ix

Authors' Preface

xiii

Glossary

xv

Maps

xvii

Chronology

xxiii

Series Editors' Introduction

Conceptualizing the History of Women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa

xxvii

Cheryl Johnson-Odim

Margaret Strobel

Introduction

1

(4)

Guity Nashat

Judith E. Tucker

PART I WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST: 8000 B. C. E.---C. E. 1800

5

(68)

Guity Nashat

PART II WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

73

(60)

Judith E. Tucker

Sources: 8000 B. C. E.---C. E. 1800

133

(10)

Sources: Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

143

(10)

Notes On Contributors

153

(2)

Index

155

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa

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