Arab women: old boundaries, new frontiers

Introduction Judith E. Tucker Part 1 Gender Discourses I. WomenOs Issues in Modern Islamic Thought Barbara F. Stowasser II. Toward the Development of Post-Islamist and Post-Nationalist Feminist Discourses in the Middle East Mervat Hatem III. Authenticity and Gender The Presentation of Culture Julie M. Peteet Part 2 WomenOs Work and Development IV. Women and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Syria The Case of Aleppo Margaret L. Meriwether V. Getting It Together Baladi Egyptian Businesswomen Evelyn Aleen Early VI. Palestinian Women under Israeli Occupation Implications for Development Souad Dajani Part 3 Politics and Power VII. Independent Women More Than a Century of Feminism in Egypt Margot Badran VIII. Transforming Culture or Fostering Second-Hand Consciousness? WomenOs Front Organizations and Revolutionary Parties--The Sudan Case Sondra Hale IX. Palestinian Women and Politics in Lebanon Rosemary Sayigh Part 4 Gender Roles and Relations X. The Arab Family in History OOthernessO and the Study of the Family Judith E. Tucker XI. Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town Susan Schaefer Davis XII. Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context Arab WomenOs Special Contribution to Literature Evelyne Accad Contributors Index