Cheryl Johnson - Odim and Margaret Strobel conceived of the original single volume , extending OAH projects published in the 1970s and 1980s on U.S. and European women's history . Joan Hoff ( then Joan Hoff - Wilson , Executive Director ...
Under the headings of gender discourses, women's work and development, politics and power, and gender roles and relations, this work addresses Arab women's changing lives.
"An original, valuable, and important study. . . . This book will quickly establish itself as a key work in the field of Middle East women's studies.
An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender.
In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles.
The book provides a unique account of the very active economic, social and political roles of nineteenth-century women.
In an analysis of Islamic law through the prism of gender, Judith Tucker tackles these complex questions relating to the position of women in Islamic society, and to the ways in which the legal system impacted on the family, property rights ...
The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories, and in doing so, they challenge our comfortable notions.