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Women in Lebanon

Living with Christianity, Islam, and Multiculturalism

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  1. Marie-Claude Thomas
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 1-12

  3. Saghbine, a Christian Village: Women, Religion, and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Geography and Religious Spaces

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 15-30

    3. Childhood and Adolescence of Young Girls

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 31-41

    4. Marriages and the Condition of Married Women

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 43-61

    5. Adulthood, Married Life, and Women’s Work Outside the House

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 63-74

  4. Muslim Lebanese Women and an Islamic Modernity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Islam in Lebanon: An Overview

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 83-101

    3. Struggle in Modern Islam

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 103-115

    4. Veiling and Divergent Feminist Voices

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 117-132

    5. Personal Status Laws in Islam: Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah’s New Tafsir (Exegesis)

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 133-150

  5. Transformation within a Multicultural Lebanon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Lebanese Women

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 159-168

    3. Christian-Muslim Relations, Women, and Religion

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 169-181

    4. Lebanese Women in All Their Diversity: Convergence and Divergence

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 183-202

    5. En Route toward a More Inclusive Civil Society

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 203-214

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Marie-Claude Thomas
      Pages 215-219

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 221-245
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About this book

Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.

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Marie-Claude Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of Arabic at Oberlin College.

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