Women in Middle Eastern history: shifting boundaries in sex and gender

Introduction : deciphering Middle Eastern women's history / Nikki R. Keddie

Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti

Political action and public example : 'A'isha and the battle of the camel / Denise A. Spellberg

Early Islam and the position of women : the problem of interpretation / Leila Ahmed

Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / Paula Sanders

Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women : female anarchy versus male Sharí order in Muslim prescriptive treatises / Huda Lutfi

Class solidarity versus gender gain : women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt / Carl F. Petry

Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period / Jonathan P. Berkey.

Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert

The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / Nermin Abadan-Unat

The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran / Erika Friedl

Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / Mary Elaine Hegland

Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / Judith E. Tucker

The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith

The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / Beth Baron

Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / Virginia Danielson

Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson.