Gender, religion and change in the Middle East
Subtitle: two hundred years of history
By: edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud
Contributors: Okkenhaug, Inger Marie; Flaskerud, Ingvild
Edition: English ed
Series: Cross-cultural perspectives on women -- v. 26
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Women -- Middle East; Women -- Islamic countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud; title: Justice without drama : observations from Gaza city Sharia Court / Nahda Younis Shehada; title: From the army of G-d to the Israeli armed forces : an interaction between two cultural models / Yohai Hakak; title: To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper : the Anglican male ideal and St. George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug; title: Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s to the 1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski; title: Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron; title: Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle-Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg; title: The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White; title: Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen; title: An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel; title: Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib; title: Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask; title: Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab