Women in the Middle East

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - ISLAM IN WOMEN'S LIVES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DAILY REALITIES - Development Studies and Women in the Middle East, the Way Forward; H.Afshar - Western Invention on Arab Womanhood: the Oriental Woman; M.Mehdid - Women in Every Day Religious Discourse in Iran; Z.Kamalkhani - The Sharia Marriage and Marital Relations in Iran; Z.Mir-Hoseini - Attitudes to Female Employment in Four Middle Eastern Countries; I.Papps - Female Labour and Female Power in Two Contrasting Regions of the Iranian Province of Kerman; S.Razavi - THE STRUGGLES FOR LIBERATION - Women in the Middle East, an Overview; N.A.Sadaawi - The Saddam Hussein Phenomenon and Male-Female Relations in the Arab World; G.Karmi - The Interrogation of Women 'Security' Detainees by the Israeli; T.Thornhill - Populism and Feminism in Iran; H.Moghissi - Networking and Struggles of Women Living under Muslim Laws Peace Movement; M.A.Helie-Lucas - Index