TY - BOOK ID - 19331445 TI - Women in the Middle East : past and present PY - 2007 SN - 0691128634 1283540010 9786613852465 140084505X 0691116105 9780691128634 9780691116105 PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Feminism KW - Women KW - History. KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Islam KW - Sexology KW - Community organization KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Middle East KW - Cylinder seals KW - Symbolism KW - History KW - Femmes KW - FeĢminisme KW - Histoire KW - Moyen-Orient KW - #SBIB:316.346H20 KW - #SBIB:39A77 KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen KW - Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten KW - Emancipation KW - Abbasid Caliphate. KW - Adultery. KW - Afghanistan. KW - Agriculture (Chinese mythology). KW - Algeria. KW - Arabs. KW - Caliphate. KW - Cambridge University Press. KW - Carpet. KW - Child custody. KW - Colonialism. KW - Concubinage. KW - Doria Shafik. KW - Dower. KW - Employment. KW - Extended family. KW - Family planning. KW - Female education. KW - Feminism (international relations). KW - Feminism. KW - Feminist movement. KW - Gender equality. KW - Gender inequality. KW - Gender role. KW - Hadith. KW - Hijab. KW - Homosexuality. KW - Honor killing. KW - Household. KW - Human female sexuality. KW - Husain. KW - Ideology. KW - Imperialism. KW - Institution. KW - Iranian Revolution. KW - Islam. KW - Islamic Modernism. KW - Islamism. KW - Janet Afary. KW - Jews. KW - Leila Ahmed. KW - Lila Abu-Lughod. KW - Literacy. KW - Literature. KW - Mahnaz Afkhami. KW - Middle East. KW - Missionary. KW - Muhammad's wives. KW - Muslim world. KW - Muslim. KW - Narrative. KW - Newspaper. KW - Nikki Keddie. KW - North Africa. KW - Oppression. KW - Orientalism. KW - Ottoman Empire. KW - Patriarchy. KW - Politician. KW - Politics. KW - Polygamy. KW - Pre-Islamic Arabia. KW - Prejudice. KW - Prostitution. KW - Quran. KW - R. KW - Religion. KW - Reza Shah. KW - Ruhollah Khomeini. KW - Safavid dynasty. KW - Saudi Arabia. KW - Sayyid. KW - Seclusion. KW - Secularism. KW - Sex segregation. KW - Sharia. KW - Slavery. KW - Social science. KW - Sunni Islam. KW - Syracuse University Press. KW - The Other Hand. KW - Tradition. KW - Tunisia. KW - University of California Press. KW - Upper class. KW - Veil. KW - Virginity. KW - Warfare. KW - Western world. KW - Westernization. KW - Women in Arab societies. KW - Women in Islam. KW - Women's history. KW - Women's rights. KW - Women's suffrage. KW - World War I. KW - World War II. KW - Writing. KW - Yale University Press. KW - Ziba Mir-Hosseini. KW - Nationalism KW - Sexuality KW - Women's movements KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19331445 AB - 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 to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women within their individual economic situations, identities, families, and geographies, Women in the Middle East examines the experiences of women in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in Iran, and in all the Arab countries. Keddie discusses the interaction of a changing Islam with political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments. In doing so, she shows that, like other major religions, Islam incorporated ideas and practices of male superiority but also provoked challenges to them. Keddie breaks with notions of Middle Eastern women as faceless victims, and assesses their involvement in the rise of modern nationalist, socialist, and Islamist movements. While acknowledging that conservative trends are strong, she notes that there have been significant improvements in Middle Eastern women's suffrage, education, marital choice, and health. ER -