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Modernizing women : gender and social change in the Middle East /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Women > Middle East > Social conditions.
Muslim women > Middle East > Social conditions.
Women > Middle East > Economic conditions.
Muslim women > Middle East > Economic conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Recasting the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan
  • Economic development, state policy, and women's employment
  • Reforms, revolutions, and the woman question
  • Patriarchy, and the changing family
  • Islamist movements and women's responses
  • Iran: from Islamization to Islamic feminism, and beyond?
  • Afghanistan: revolution, reaction, and attempted reconstruction
  • All that is solid melts into air.