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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Women and the family in the Middle East. Austin : University of Texas Press, c1985 (DLC) 84011944 (OCoLC)10851447 |
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| Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea |
| OCLC Number: | 652064460 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 356 p.) |
| Contents: | Poem / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Algerian women discuss the need for change / Fatiha Akeb and Malika Abdelaziz -- The Arab family and the challenge of social transformation / Halim Barakat -- The charm / Ilfat Idilbi -- New images, old reflections : working middle-class women in Egypt / Safia K. Moshen -- The ringing / Fathiyyah ʻAwada -- Fatima : a life history of an Egyptian women from Bulaq / Evelyn Early -- Divorce / Leila Abouzeid -- Continuity and change in women's education in the Arab states / Nagat Al-Sanabary -- Growing up female in Egypt / Nawal Al-Saʻdawi -- Ideology, value changes, and women's social position in Libyan society / Mustafa O. Attir -- Women and public health in Morocco : one family's experience / Donna Lee Bown -- Women's education and its relation to fertility : report from Baghdad / Ann Bragdon Al-Kadhi -- The social and political implications of female circumcision : the case of the Sudan / Nahid F. Toubia -- Poems / Fadwa Tuqan -- The Kalashnikov generation / Maroun Baghdadi and Nayla de Freige -- Those memories / Emily Nasrallah -- Encounters with Palestinian women under occupation / Rosemary Sayigh -- The aunt of Rafiq / Daisy Al-Amir -- Revitalizing old ideas : developments in Middle Eastern family law / Eric Mueller -- Recent amendments to Egypt's personal status law / Aziza Hussein -- An Islamic activist : Zaynab al-Ghazali / Valerie J. Hoffman -- The position of women in Shiʻa Iran : views of the ʻUlama / Shireen Mahdavi -- Women and work : strategies and choices in a lower-class quarter of Cairo / Andrea B. Rugh -- The shoes / Iqbal Barakah -- Cairo's factory women / Barbara Lethem Ibrahim -- I remember I was a point, I was a circle / Hoda Al-Namani -- An interview with Hoda al-Namani / Amin Al-Rihani -- Women's folk narratives and social change / Sabra Webber -- Conformity and confrontation : a comparison of two Iranian women poets / Farzaneh Milani -- Poems / Lamiʻa Abbas Al-ʻImarah -- A forbidden glimpse, a broken sound / Assia Djebar. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. |
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Related Subjects:(23)
- Women -- Arab countries.
- Families -- Arab countries.
- Arab countries -- Social life and customs.
- Women -- Iran.
- Familia -- Países árabes.
- Mujeres -- Irán.
- Países árabes -- Vida social y costumbres.
- Femmes -- États arabes.
- Famille -- États arabes.
- Femmes -- Iran.
- États arabes -- Moeurs et coutumes.
- Gezin.
- Vrouwen.
- Sociale verandering.
- Family -- Middle East.
- Social Conditions -- Middle East.
- Women -- Middle East.
- Famille -- Moyen-Orient -- Recueils d'articles.
- Femmes -- Moyen-Orient -- Conditions sociales -- Recueils d'articles.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Familie.
- Frau.
- Arabische Staaten.
