Women in the Muslim World

Preface\nContents\nIntroduction\nPart One General Perspectives on Legal and Socioeconomic Change\n1 Women and Law Reform in Contemporary Islam\n2 Legal Reform as an Indicator of Women’s Status in Muslim Nations\n3 The Status and Fertility Patterns of Muslim Women\n4 Women and Social Change in Morocco\n5 Women in Turkish Society\n6 Women’s Emancipation in Tunisia\n7 Women in Algeria\n8 Education and Employment among Kuwaiti Women\n9 On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women\n10 Legal and Social Positions of Iranian Women\nPart Two Historical Perspectives\n11 Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age\n12 Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey\n13 The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt\n14 Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt\n15 Women and Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911\nPart Three Case Studies: Nomads, Villagers, Town and City Dwellers\n16 The Status of Women in Four Middle East Communities\n17 Women among Qashqa’i Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran\n18 The Women’s Subsociety among the Shahsevan Nomads of Iran\n19 Changing Sex Roles in Bedouin Society in Syria and Lebanon\n20 Working Women in a Moroccan Village\n21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan\n22 Iranian Women in Family Alliance and Sexual Politics\n23 Women, Class, and Power: Examples from the Hatay, Turkey\n24 A Comparative Perspective on Women in Provincial Iran and Turkey\n25 The Domestic Social Environment of Women and Girls in Isfahan, Iran\n26 Self-images of Traditional Urban Women in Cairo\n27 Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon\nPart Four: Ideology, Religion, and Ritual\n28 The Negotiation of Reality: Male-Female Relations in Sefrou, Morocco\n29 Women, Sufism, and Decision-Making in Moroccan Islam\n30 Sex Differences and Folk Illness in an Egyptian Village\n31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel\n32 Women in Contemporary Persian Folktales\n33 Being Female in a Muslim Minority in China\nContributors\nIndex