More Shopping OptionsWhether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women, or a combination of both, depends on time, place and circumstance. This book seeks to contextualize women's roles within their religious traditions rather than through the lens of a dominant culture. This book provides a comprehensive survey of women in Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in the Middle East during the last two centuries. The authors consider women's defined roles within these religious communities, and explore how women themselves develop and apply their own strategies within religious societies. A wide-ranging account, the essays draw on case studies from Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon since 1800.
Inger Marie Okkenhaug is Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway.
Ingvild Flaskerud is Lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway.
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. 1900-1940--Inger Marie Okkenhaug * Women Students at the American University of Beirut 1920s-1940s--Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski * Women, Social Welfare, and the State 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's Contribution to Spiritual Capital--Karin Ask * Vows, Mediumship and Gender: Women's Votive Meals in Iran--Azam Torab
