Women in the Middle East and North Africa : agents of change / edited by Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-288 )and index.

The veil : religious and historical foundations of the modern political discourse / Nazli Fathi-Rizk -- Women, Islam, and political agency in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi -- Assia Djebar and Malika Mokeddem : neocolonial agents or postcolonial subjects? / Abdelkader Cheref -- Women and political reform in Israel / Galia Golan -- Women's NGOs and social change in Morocco / Moha Ennaji -- Palestinian women's movements and activism / Islah Jad -- Tunisia at the forefront of the Arab world : two waves of gender legislation / Mounira M. Charrad -- Feminism and family law in Iran : the struggle for women's economic citizenship in the Islamic Republic / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The legal status of women in Egypt : reform and social inertia / Hoda Ragheb Awad -- Algerian women as agents of change and social cohesion / Zahia Smail Salhi -- Women in Turkey : caught between tradition and modernity / Fatma Umut Bespinar -- Women and language in Tunisia / Raoudha Kammoun -- Women, education, and the redefinition of empowerment and change in a traditional society : the case of Oman / Thuwayba Al Barwani -- Perpetuating authority : Ishelhin women's rituals and the transmission of Islamic knowledge in southwestern Morocco / Margaret J. Rausch -- Moroccan women contrabandists : interferences in public space / Touria Khannous -- The Orient within : women "in-between" under Francoism / Aurora G. Morcillo.