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Preface | |
Organization of the Volume | |
Introduction: Deciphering Middle Eastern Women's History | p. 1 |
Islam and Patriarchy: A Comparative Perspective | p. 23 |
The First Islamic Centuries | |
Political Action and Public Example: Aisha and the Battle of the Camel | p. 45 |
Early Islam and the Position of Women: The Problem of Interpretation | p. 58 |
Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law | p. 74 |
The Mamluk Period | |
Manners and Customs of Fourteenth-Century Cairene Women: Female Anarchy versus Male Shari Order in Muslim Prescriptive Treatises | p. 99 |
Class Solidarity versus Gender Gain: Women as Custodians of Property in Later Medieval Egypt | p. 122 |
Women and Islamic Education in the Mamluk Period | p. 143 |
Modern Turkey and Iran | |
Ottoman Women, Households, and Textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914 | p. 161 |
The Impact of Legal and Educational Reforms on Turkish Women | p. 177 |
The Dynamics of Women's Spheres of Action in Rural Iran | p. 195 |
Political Roles of Aliabad Women: The Public-Private Dichotomy Transcended | p. 215 |
The Modern Arab World | |
Ties That Bound: Women and Family in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nablus | p. 233 |
The House of Zainab: Female Authority and Saintly Succession in Colonial Algeria | p. 254 |
The Making and Breaking of Marital Bonds in Modern Egypt | p. 275 |
Artists and Entrepreneurs: Female Singers in Cairo during the 1920s | p. 292 |
Biography and Women's History: On Interpreting Doria Shafik | p. 310 |
List of Contributors | p. 335 |
Index | p. 337 |
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