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Women in the Middle East

Perceptions, Realities and Struggles for Liberation

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Haleh Afshar

    1. Department of Politics, University of York, UK

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Islam in Women’s Lives: Theoretical Perspectives and Daily Realities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Development Studies and Women in the Middle East: The Dilemmas of Research and Development

      • Haleh Afshar
      Pages 3-17

    3. A Western Invention of Arab Womanhood: The ‘Oriental’ Female

      • Malika Mehdid
      Pages 18-58

    4. Women, Marriage and the Law in Post-Revolutionary Iran

      • Ziba Mir-Hosseini
      Pages 59-84

    5. Women’s Everyday Religious Discourse in Iran

      • Zahra Kamalkhani
      Pages 85-95

    6. Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries

      • Ivy Papps
      Pages 96-116

    7. Women, Work and Power in the Rafsanjan Basin of Iran

      • Shahrashoub Razavi
      Pages 117-136

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 243-250
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This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally.

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  • Department of Politics, University of York, UK

    Haleh Afshar

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