Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change [Paperback]

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: University of Texas Press (February 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0292755295
• ISBN-13: 978-0292755291
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,182,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, January 5, 2001

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Erika Mitchell (E. Calais, VT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change (Paperback)

This book consists of a collection of essays, short fiction, and poetry on the theme of women and family in the Middle East. The book is divided into 6 main sections: the family; health and education; war, politics, and revolution; religion and law; work; and identity. Most regions of the Middle East are included, with the exception of the Gulf States. By her choice of such a wide variety of texts, Fernea succeeds in conveying how varied women's issues and concerns are in the Middle East. In some sections, such as the one on work, women's experiences come across as being similar to those found in other parts of the world: wives are reluctant to work for fear of emasculating their husbands, yet a second income has become necessary to allow for patterns of increasing consumption. In other sections, we find information particular to the Middle East, especially in health and education, where Nawal Al-Sa'dawi describes the essence of gender development in Muslim families and Nahid Toubia presents facts about female circumcision. Although some of the texts are now somewhat dated, the book could still be a valuable source for information on the wide range of topics that it contains.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars informative as well as entertaining, January 5, 2002

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Hala Innab (SM, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change (Paperback)

I bought this book for a paper I was writing. surprisingly, it was entertaining as well informative. I liked the fact that it included many genres of writing such as poetry, essays, stories, memoirs, etc.