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In: Feminist studies: FS, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 114
ISSN: 2153-3873
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In: Feminist studies: FS, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 114
ISSN: 2153-3873
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Volume 26, Issue 3, p. 246-294
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 200
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 326-330
ISSN: 1568-5209
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