| A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East Contributor(s): Meriwether, Margaret Lee (Author), Tucker, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813321018 ISBN-13: 9780813321011 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1999 Annotation: In this important new work, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker synthesize and make accessible the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years. Using new theoretical approaches and methodologies as well as nontraditional sources, scholars studying women and gender issues in Middle Eastern societies have made great progress in shedding light on these complex subjects. A Social History of Women and the Family in the Middle East provides an overview of this scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth-and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area -- gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements -- and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic. Although structured around the individual author's own work, the chapters also include overviews and assessments of other research, highlights of ongoing debates and key issues, and comparisons across regions of the Middle East. An insightful introduction centers the various chapters around key theoretical, methodological, and historical issues and makes connections with other areas of social historical research on the Middle East and with research on gender and women's history in other parts of the world. Although there are many studies available on women and gender, A Social History of Women and the Family in the Middle East provides a breadth of coverage and assessment of the field that is not found elsewhere. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 99017105 |
| Lexile Measure: 1580 |
| Series: Social History of the Modern Middle East |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9.02" (0.78 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area-gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements-and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic. |
