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Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's positions in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programs and attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been slow and uneven by linking it to political and economic developments. By illustrating particular themes--personal status laws, development policies, political rights--with examples from specific countries, Nadia Hijab builds up an informative overview of the Arab world today.
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Cambridge Middle East Library General Editor ROGER OWEN Editorial Board EDMUND BURKE, SERIF MARDIN, WALID KAZZIHA, AVI SHLAIM, BASIM MUSALLAM Medicine and power in Tunisia, 178--1900 NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER Urban notables and Arab nationalism: the politics of Damascus, 186-1920 PHILIP S. KHOURY The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: people, power and politics HELENA COBBAN Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali AFAF LUTFI AL-SAYYID MARSOT Women in nineteenth-century Egypt JUDITH E. TUCKER Egyptian politics under Sadat RAYMOND A. HINNEBUSCH Nomads and settlers in Syria and Jordan, I8oo-I980 NORMAN N. LEWIS Islam and resistance in Afghanistan OLIVIER ROY The Imamate tradition of Oman JOHN C. WILKINSON King Abdullah, Britain and the making of Jordan MARY C. WILSON The Ottoman Empire and European capitalism, 1820-I9I3 �EVKET PAMUK Merchants of Essaouira: urban society and imperialism in southwestern Morocco, I844-I886 DANIEL J. SCHROETER The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, I947-1949 BENNY MORRIS Jordan in the I967 war SAMIR A. MUTAWI War's other voices: women writers in the Lebanese civil war MIRIAM COOKE Colonising Egypt TIMOTHY MITCHELL Womanpower The Arab debate on women at work NADIA HIJAB UCAMBRIDGE V UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this tide: www.cambridge.org/9 780521269926 © Cambridge University Press I988 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published I988 Reprinted I994 A catalogue recordfor this publication is availablefrom the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Hijab, Nadia. Womanpower: theArab debate on women at work. (Cambridge Middle East library) Bibliography. r. Includes index. Women -Arab countries. 2. Family -Arab countries. 3. Women - Employment -Arab countries - Public opinion. 4. Women in development -Arab countries - Public opinion. 5. Public opinion -Arab countries. I. T itle. II Series. HQ1784.H541988 ISBN ISBN 3054'Q9I 7'4927 8 7-2I2I 7 978-o-52I-26443-3 Hardback 978-o-52I-26992-6 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work is correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. To A. and W., who,