Gulf women
By: edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation; Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Doha
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789992142684
Subjects: Muslim women; Social conditions; Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-428 p.) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Researching the Gulf / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol; title: 1.Women in Eastern Arabia: Myth and Representation / Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi; title: 2.Tribalism, Tribal Feuds and the Social Status of Women / Allen Fromherz; title: 3.Women and Politics in Late Jahili and Early Islamic Arabia: Reading behind Patriarchal History / Barbara Freyer Stowasser; title: 4.Love Discourse in Hijazi Society under the Umayyads: A Study in Class and Gender / Amira El-Zein; title: 5.Nomadic Histories: Reflections on Bedouin Women's Poetry from the Gulf Region / Moneera al-Ghadeer; title: 6.Women and the Economy: Pre-oil Gulf States / Hoda El Saadi; title: 7.A Labor of Love: Making Space for Midwives in Gulf History / Hibba Abugideiri; title: 8.Women's Religious Activities in the Arabian Peninsula: A Historical Outlook / Omaima Abou-Bakr; title: 9.Women and Education in the Gulf: Between the Modern and the Traditional / Ramadan al-Khouli; title: Contents note continued: 10.Women of the Gulf during the First Half of the Twenthieth Century: a Comparative Study of American Missionary Archives and Local Memory / Fatma al-Sayegh; title: 11.Some Considerations on the Family in the Arabian Peninsula in the Late Ottoman and Early Post-Ottoman Period / Soraya Altorki; title: 12.The Family in Gulf History / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol; title: 13.Gender Rights and Islamic Legal Tradition: An Exploration / Ziba Mir-Hosseini; title: 14.Gulf Women and the Codification of Muslim Family Law / Lynn Welchman.