Middle Eastern Muslim women speak
By: edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Basima Qattan Bezigran.
Contributors: Fernea, Elizabeth W.; Bezirgan, Basima Qattan.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Women -- Middle East.
Description: This volume is a collection of autobiographical and biographical writings by and about Middle Eastern women. Many of the selections have been translated by the editors from Arabic, Persian, or French; they not only represent real women from a wide range of occupations, points of view, and socioeconomic status, but also touch on major themes in the contemporary Muslim world.