The Struggle for Equality: Urban Women Workers in Prestate Israeli Society more books like this

by Deborah Bernstein

The object of this study is to clarify why and how it happened that women remained marginal in the processes of social change that took place during the development of Israeli society. The author demonstrates that women's failure to change their status did not stem from any sort of biological imperative, nor from some inevitable trend of social ...

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In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine more books like this

by Judith E Tucker

A study of Islamic law in 17th- and 18th-century Syria and Palestine. The text explores the ways in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. Court cases offer testimony on the relations between men and women, parents and children in these societies.

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