Introduction; The State of Historical Study of Middle East Women; The Writing of Women's History in the Middle East; Women and Gender in the Middle East Before 1800; Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East; Notes; References; 1 A Woman Without Her Distaff: Gender, Work, and Handicraft Production in Colonial North Africa; Making Algeria French, c. 1830-1930; Algerian Women and Handicraft Production: Resurrection or Reinvention?; Tunisia: Male and Female Producers in City, Town, and Countryside. From Artisan to Wage Laborer, c. 1881-1956Notes; References; 2 Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women's Studies; Modernization, Gender, and the State in the Study of the Nineteenth-Century Middle East; Modernization, Gender, and the State in the Study of the Twentieth-Century Middle East; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 The Other ""Awakening"": The Emergence of Women's Movements in the Modern Middle East, 1900-1940; History, Politics, and Gender; History of the Movements; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Debating Islamic Family Law: Legal Texts and Social Practices. Shifting Positions and PerspectivesClassical Islamic Law"": New Sources, New Perspectives; Family Law Reform: The State, the Law, and Gendered Citizenship; Legal Reform and Social Change; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Gender and Religion in the Middle East and South Asia: Women's Voices Rising; Gender and Islam Before 1979; Recent Developments Influencing Gender and Islam Dynamics; Women's Resisting Stances; Gender and Islam: Women's Accommodating Resistance; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index. |