Table of Contents
Women and law reform in contemporary Islam / Noel Coulson & Doreen Hinchcliffe -- Legal reform as an indicator of women's status in Muslim nations / Elizabeth H. White -- The status and fertility patterns of Muslim women / Nadia H. Youssef -- Women and social change in Morocco / Vanessa Maher -- Women in Turkish society / Fatma Mansur Coðsar -- Women's emancipation in Tunisia / Mark A. Tessler, Janet Rogers & Daniel Schneider -- Women in Algeria / Juliette Minces -- Education and employment among Kuwaiti women / Kamla Nath -- On changing the concept and position of Persian women / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Legal and social positions of Iranian women / Behnaz Pakizegi -- Turkish women in the Ottoman empire : the classical age / Ian C. Dengler -- Women as patrons of architecture in Turkey / èUlkèu èU. Bates -- The revolutionary gentlewomen in Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Feminism and Nationalist politics in Egypt / Thomas Philipp -- Women and revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 / Mangol Bayat-Philipp --