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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. Introduction : Deciphering Middle Eastern Women's History / Nikki R. Keddie -- Islam And Patriarchy : A Comparative Perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Political Action And Public Example : 'a'isha And The Battle Of The Camel / Denise A. Spellberg -- Early Islam And The Position Of Women : The Problem Of Interpretation / Leila Ahmed -- Gendering The Ungendered Body : Hermaphrodites In Medieval Islamic Law / Paula Sanders -- Manners

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Author

Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Barone, Beth Baron

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300050059

Category

nonfiction

Rating

3.68 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14