Arab women : between defiance and restraint / edited by Suha Sabbagh.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-257) and index.

1. Women and politics in the Middle East / Sarah Graham-Brown -- 2. Women's rights in the Arab world / Ramla Khalidi and Judith Tucker -- 3. Palestine's Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi : an interview / Suha Sabbagh -- 4. Jordan's Leila Sharaf : an interview / Abla Amawi -- 5. Women's rights : an affair of state for Tunisia / Richard H. Curtiss -- 6. Women and work in the Arab world / Nadia Hijab -- 7. The status of women in Syria / Bouthaina Sha'aban -- 8. Women and public participation in Yemen / Sheila Carapico -- 9. Formal education and training in non-traditional jobs / Samira Harfoush-Strickland -- 10. Women and the nursing profession in Saudi Arabia / Nagat el-Sanabary -- 11. Women's education in Jordan / Abla Amawi -- 12. The case of Lebanon / Hala Maksoud -- 13. The effects of war on women in Lebanon / Julinda Abu Nassr -- 14. Lebanon's civil war through different eyes : an interview with Jean Said Makdisi / Suha Sabbagh -- 15. Palestinian women and institution building / Suha Sabbagh -- 16. The declarations of principles on Palestinian women's rights : an analysis / Suha Sabbagh -- 17. The women's document : a tool for women's empowerment and struggle : an interview with Eileen Kuttab -- 18. The women's movement on the West Bank / Rita Giacaman -- 19. Women in Islam : the mother of all battles / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane I. Smith -- 20. Women and property rights in Islam / Abla Amawi -- 21. Feminism comes of age in Islam / Fadwa el Guindi -- 22. Muslim women and fundamentalism / Fatima Mernissi -- 23. Economic and political liberalization in Egypt and the demise of state feminism / Mervat F. Hatem -- 24. Gender and family in the Arab world / Suad Joseph -- 25. Gender and civil society : an interview with Suad Joseph / Joe Stork -- 26. "Hassiba Ben Bouali, if you could see our Algeria" : women and public space in Algeria / Susan Slyomovics -- 27. State and gender in the Maghrib / Mounira Charrad -- 28. Women in Kuwait / Taghreed Alqudsi-Ghabra -- 29. Arab women and literature : an overview / Bouthaina Sha'aban -- 30. An interview with Iraq's Lami'a Abbass Ammara / Samer M. Reno -- 31. An interview with Syria's Kamar Keilany / Suha Sabbagh -- 32. The hidden history of Arab feminism / Bouthaina Sha'aban.