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Women in the Muslim world
Beck, Lois, 1944-, Keddie, Nikki R.
Year: 1978.
Publisher:  Harvard University Press. 
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Frontmatter
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE GENERAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE
1 Women and Law Reform in Contemporary Islam
2 Legal Reform as an Indicator of Women's Status in Muslim Nations
3 The Status and Fertility Patterns of Muslim Women
4 Women and Social Change in Morocco
5 Women in Turkish Society
6 Women's Emancipation in Tunisia
7 Women in Algeria
8 Education and Employment among Kuwaiti Women
9 On Changing the Concept and Position of Persian Women
10 Legal and Social Positions of Iranian Women
PART TWO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
11 Turkish Women in the Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age
12 Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey
13 The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt
14 Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt
15 Women and Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911
PART THREE CASE STUDIES: NOMADS, VILLAGERS, TOWN AND CITY DWELLERS
16 The Status of Women in Four Middle East Communities
17 Women among Qashqa'i Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran
18 The Women's Subsociety among the Shahsevan Nomads of Iran
19 Changing Sex Roles in Bedouin Society in Syria and Lebanon
20 Working Women in a Moroccan Village
21 The Status of Women and Property on a Baluchistan Oasis in Pakistan
22 Iranian Women in Family Alliance and Sexual Politics
23 Women, Class, and Power: Examples from the Hatay, Turkey
24 A Comparative Perspective on Women in Provincial Iran and Turkey
25 The Domestic Social Environment of Women and Girls in Isfahan, Iran
26 Self-Images of Traditional Urban Women in Cairo
27 Women and the Neighborhood Street in Borj Hammoud, Lebanon
PART FOUR IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND RITUAL
28 The Negotiation of Reality: Male-Female Relations in Sefrou, Morocco
29 Women, Sufism, and Decision-Making in Moroccan Islam
30 Sex Differences and Folk Illness in an Egyptian Village
31 The Theme of Sexual Oppression in the North African Novel
32 Women in Contemporary Persian Folktales
33 Being Female in a Muslim Minority in China
CONTRIBUTORS
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Title: Women in the Muslim world : edited by Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie.
Author: Beck, Lois, 1944-; Keddie, Nikki R
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Source Version: Women in the Muslim world : edited by Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie. 
Beck, Lois, 1944-, Keddie, Nikki R
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04416
Subject Headings: • Muslim women
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