Women in the Middle East past and present

Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keddie, Nikki R. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press c2007.
Edición:Course Book
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book 1. Women in the Middle East : a history
  • Introduction. Issues in studying Middle Eastern women's history
  • I. Regional background and the beginnings of Islam
  • II. From the pious caliphs through the dynastic caliphates
  • III. From the Turkish and Mongol invasions to 1798
  • IV. Change in the long nineteenth century 1798-1914
  • V. 1914-45 : nationalism and women's movements
  • VI. 1945-today : new states and trends, women's activism, and the rise of Islamism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes to book one
  • Bibliography of books
  • Book 2. Approaches to the study of Middle Eastern women
  • Part 1. Shifting boundaries in sex and gender
  • Part 2. Scholarship, relativism, and universalism
  • Part 3. Women in the limelight : recent books on Middle Eastern women's history since 1800
  • Part 4. Problems in the study of Middle Eastern women
  • Part 5. Sexuality and Shii social protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh])
  • Book 3. Autobiographical recollections
  • Part 1. Autobiographical interview
  • Part 2. Supplement to the interview
  • Bibliography of works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995.
  • bk. 1. Women in the Middle East : a history
  • bk. 2. Approaches to the study of Middle Eastern women
  • bk. 3. Autobiographical recollections.