Women in the Middle East

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - ISLAM IN WOMEN'S LIVES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DAILY REALITIES - Development Studies and Women in the Middle East, the Way Forward H.Afshar - Western Invention on Arab Womanhood: the Oriental Woman M.Mehdid - Women in Every Day Religious Discourse in Iran Z.Kamalkhani - The Sharia Marriage and Marital Relations in Iran Z.Mir-Hoseini - Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries I.Papps - Female Labour and Female Power in Two Contrasting Regions of the Iranian Province of Kerman S.Razavi - THE STRUGGLES FOR LIBERATION - Women in the Middle East, an Overview N.A.Sadaawi - The Saddam Hussein Phenomenon and Male-Female Relations in the Arab World G.Karmi - The Interrogation of Women 'Security' Detainees by the Israeli T.Thornhill - Populism and Feminism in Iran H.Moghissi - Networking and Struggles of Women Living under Muslim Laws Peace Movement M.A.Helie-Lucas - Index

Feminism · Geography · Islam · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sharia · Sociology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Muslim women · Social conditions · Sociology Of Women · Women