Gender, religion and change in the Middle East two hundred years of history /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Okkenhaug, Inger Marie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Edition:English ed.
Series:Cross-cultural perspectives on women, v. 26
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10193746
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud
  • Justice without drama : observations from Gaza city Sharia Court / Nahda Younis Shehada
  • From the army of G-d to the Israeli armed forces : an interaction between two cultural models / Yohai Hakak
  • To give the boys energy, manliness, and self-command in temper : the Anglican male ideal and St. George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug
  • Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s-1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski
  • Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron
  • Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
  • The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White
  • Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen
  • An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel
  • Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib
  • Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask
  • Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.