They were tought cooking, laundering, needlework, hygeine, and housewife things. The chapter also gets into womens position in the twentieth century. With the expansion of the upper and middle classes in the Middle east, we see a rise in professional women take hold. The lower classes still live in a poverty type setting though. In the chapter it also goes into the liberal movements taking hold in many nations in the Middle East.
Some specfic examples are equal rights movements, and also into fundamentalist movements.
The author does a very good job of talking about the issues that have plaughed women throughout the nineteenth century. She has good points and expresses them well. Mr. Clementz summarizes Tucker's arguments on the impact of European colonialism on the status of women in dominated Muslim areas of the world. I thought the best point that Tucker puts forth on colonialism and the status of women is on page 26 of the essay. The most significant irony in the role of colonialism on the oppression of women is that of conflation.