Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender / eidted by Nikki,R. Keddie and Beth Baron

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / DonaldQuataert -- The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / Nermin Abadan-Unat -- The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran / Erika Friedl -- Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / Mary Elaine Hegland -- Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / Judith E. Tucker -- The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith --The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / Beth Baron -- Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / Virginia Danielson -- Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson.