Women in the Middle East: Perceptions, Realities and Struggles for Liberation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Development Studies and Women in the Middle East: The Dilemmas of Research and Development....Pages 3-17
A Western Invention of Arab Womanhood: The ‘Oriental’ Female....Pages 18-58
Women, Marriage and the Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran....Pages 59-84
Women’s Everyday Religious Discourse in Iran....Pages 85-95
Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries....Pages 96-116
Women, Work and Power in the Rafsanjan Basin of Iran....Pages 117-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Women’s Resistance in the Arab World and in Egypt....Pages 139-145
The Saddam Hussein Phenomenon and Male-Female Relations in the Arab World....Pages 146-157
Women in the Resistance Movement in Iran....Pages 158-171
The Emergence of a Joint Israeli—Palestinian Women’s Peace Movement during the Intifada....Pages 172-184
The Interrogation of Women ‘Security’ Detainees by the Israeli General Security Service....Pages 185-205
Women’s Struggles and Strategies in the Rise of Fundamentalism in the Muslim World: From Entryism to Internationalism....Pages 206-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-250