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Arab women : between defiance and restraint /

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The lives of Arab women today are complex, diverse and far more multi-faceted than those of the one-dimensional creatures of veiled passivity who inhabit the imaginations of so many Western "experts." In most Arab countries, women face constricting laws and social customs that hold them ba...

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Other Authors: Sabbagh, Suha (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Olive Branch Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Women > Arab countries > Social conditions.
Feminism > Arab countries.
Muslim women > Arab countries.
Women in Islam > Arab countries.
Femmes > États arabes > Conditions sociales.
Féminisme > États arabes.
Musulmanes > États arabes.
Femmes dans l'islam > États arabes.
Feminism
Muslim women
Women in Islam
Women > Social conditions
Arab countries
Soziale Situation
Politik
Literatur
Frau
Arabische Staaten
Vrouwen.
Feminisme.
Islamieten.
Women, Arab > Social conditions.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Women in Islam.
Féminisme > Pays arabes.
Femmes > Pays arabes > Conditions sociales.
Musulmanes > Pays arabes.
Femmes dans l'islam > Pays arabes.
Arabische Staaten.
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.