Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers / edited by Judith E. Tucker.

Introduction / Judith E. Tucker -- I. Women's Issues in Modern Islamic Thought / Barbara F. Stowasser -- II. Toward the Development of Post-Islamist and Post-Nationalist Feminist Discourses in the Middle East / Mervat Hatem -- III. Authenticity and Gender: The Presentation of Culture / Julie M. Peteet -- IV. Women and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Syria: The Case of Aleppo / Margaret L. Meriwether -- V. Getting It Together: Baladi Egyptian Businesswomen / Evelyn Aleene Early -- VI. Palestinian Women under Israeli Occupation: Implications for Development / Souad Dajani -- VII. Independent Women: More Than a Century of Feminism in Egypt / Margot Badran -- VIII. Transforming Culture or Fostering Second-Hand Consciousness? Women's Front Organizations and Revolutionary Parties - The Sudan Case / Sondra Hale -- IX. Palestinian Women and Politics in Lebanon / Rosemary Sayigh -- X. The Arab Family in History: "Otherness" and the Study of the Family / Judith E. Tucker -- XI. Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town / Susan Schaefer Davis -- XII. Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature / Evelyne Accad.

"Published in association with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC."

Includes bibliographical references and index.