Arab women : between defiance and restraint /
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New York :
Olive Branch Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Women and politics in the Middle East / Sarah Graham-Brown
- 2. Women's rights in the Arab world / Ramla Khalidi and Judith Tucker
- 3. Palestine's Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi : an interview / Suha Sabbagh
- 4. Jordan's Leila Sharaf : an interview / Abla Amawi
- 5. Women's rights : an affair of state for Tunisia / Richard H. Curtiss
- 6. Women and work in the Arab world / Nadia Hijab
- 7. The status of women in Syria / Bouthaina Sha'aban
- 8. Women and public participation in Yemen / Sheila Carapico
- 9. Formal education and training in non-traditional jobs / Samira Harfoush-Strickland
- 10. Women and the nursing profession in Saudi Arabia / Nagat el-Sanabary
- 11. Women's education in Jordan / Abla Amawi
- 12. The case of Lebanon / Hala Maksoud
- 13. The effects of war on women in Lebanon / Julinda Abu Nassr
- 14. Lebanon's civil war through different eyes : an interview with Jean Said Makdisi / Suha Sabbagh
- 15. Palestinian women and institution building / Suha Sabbagh
- 16. The declarations of principles on Palestinian women's rights : an analysis / Suha Sabbagh
- 17. The women's document : a tool for women's empowerment and struggle : an interview with Eileen Kuttab
- 18. The women's movement on the West Bank / Rita Giacaman
- 19. Women in Islam : the mother of all battles / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane I. Smith
- 20. Women and property rights in Islam / Abla Amawi
- 21. Feminism comes of age in Islam / Fadwa el Guindi
- 22. Muslim women and fundamentalism / Fatima Mernissi
- 23. Economic and political liberalization in Egypt and the demise of state feminism / Mervat F. Hatem
- 24. Gender and family in the Arab world / Suad Joseph
- 25. Gender and civil society : an interview with Suad Joseph / Joe Stork
- 26. "Hassiba Ben Bouali, if you could see our Algeria" : women and public space in Algeria / Susan Slyomovics
- 27. State and gender in the Maghrib / Mounira Charrad
- 28. Women in Kuwait / Taghreed Alqudsi-Ghabra
- 29. Arab women and literature : an overview / Bouthaina Sha'aban
- 30. An interview with Iraq's Lami'a Abbass Ammara / Samer M. Reno
- 31. An interview with Syria's Kamar Keilany / Suha Sabbagh
- 32. The hidden history of Arab feminism / Bouthaina Sha'aban.