Women and Power in the Middle East
Contributors: Suad Joseph (Editor); Susan Slyomovics (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780812235791
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Public Policy - Social Policy; Contemporary Politics - Middle East; Sociology Of Women; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Middle East - General; Anthropology; Gender studies; North Africa; c 1945 to c 1960; Women in politics; Political Science; History; Middle East
First sentence: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Western image of Middle Eastern women's role in politics is contradictory.