Description
The only textbook that looks at gender as well as women's place in the history of the modern Middle East
Written by co-authors who both teach the subject at different institutions - so the volume is shaped to the needs of students of the subject and is based on years of successful teaching
Thematically organised, with a broad focus on many different regions in the Middle East.
Table of Contents
1. History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East 2. Close to Home: Middle Eastern Women’s Lives from the Eighteenth and into the Nineteenth Centuries 3. Middle Eastern Women in the European Imagination 4. New Fathers, New Brides and New Daughters: Reform and its New Men and Women 5. The New Woman through the New Man’s Gaze 6. Beyond the “Woman Question”: Women Define Themselves as Writers, Activists and Revolutionaries 7. New States and their New Women 8. Ethnic States and “their” New Women 9. (Un)finished Business, but not as Usual: Feminisms from the 1950s 10. Women and Work 11. Sexuality 12. Fashion, Clothing, & the Body 13. Houses in Motion: Women in War and Revolution 14. Arab Spring



