Download or read book A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East written by Margaret Lee Meriwether and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area—gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements—and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.