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Abouzeid, Leila, Year of the elephant : a Moroccan woman's journey toward independence, and other stories, Austin, Tex, University of Texas at Austin, 1989.

Abu-Lughod, Lila, Veiled sentiments : honor and poetry in a Bedouin society, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986.

Abu-Lughod, Lila, Writing women's worlds : Bedouin stories, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992.

Ahmad, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1992.

Akef Najjar, Orayb and Kitty Warnock, Portraits of Palestinian Women, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1992.

Al-Mughni, Haya, Women in Kuwait: The Politics of Gender, NYC, St Martins Press, 2001, ISBN: 0-863563589, Buy/Reviews.

Altorki, Sorya and Camillia Fawzi el-Solh, Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society, NYC, Syracuse University Press, 1983.

Anonymous, Egyptian Women in Social Development: A Resource Guide, Cairo, The American University Press, 1998.

Anonymous, Women, Islam and Equality, The National Council of Resistance of Iran, 1995.

Arebi, Saddeka, Women and words in Saudi Arabia : the politics of literary discourse, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994.

Augustin, Ebba (ed.), Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience, London, Zed Books, 1993.

Badran, Margot, Feminist, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995.

Badran, Margot and Mariam Cook (ed.), Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1990.

Beck Lois and Nikki Keddie (ed.), Women in the Muslim World, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1978.

Bendt, Ingala and James Downing, We Shall Return--Women of Palestine, London, Zed/Lawrence Hill, 1980.

Boddy, Janice Patricia, Wombs and alien spirits : women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Brooks, Geraldine, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, NYC, Anchor, 1995.

Delaney, Carol Lowery, The seed and the soil : gender and cosmology in Turkish village society, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.

Dorsky, Susan, Women of `Amran : a Middle Eastern ethnographic study, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1986.

Dwyer, Daisy Hilse, Images and self-images : male and female in Morocco, New York, Columbia University Press, 1978.

Early, Evelyn A., Baladi women of Cairo : playing with an egg and a stone, Boulder ; London, L. Rienner, 1993.

Egineer, Asghar Ali, The Rights of Women in Islam, London, Hurst and Company, 1996.

El Guindi, Fadwa, Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, London, Berg Pub Ltd, 1999, ISBN: 1859739296, Buy/Reviews.

El-Bahnassawi, Salem, Women Between Islam and World Legislation, Kuwait, Dar al-Oalam, 1985.

Emmett, Ayala H., Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence, Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Fayyad, Muna, The road to feminism : Arab women writers, East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University, 1987.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, A street in Marrakech, Garden City, NY, Anchor Press, 1980.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, In search of Islamic feminism : one woman's global journey, New York, Doubleday, 1998.

Friedl, Erika, Women of Deh Koh : lives in an Iranian village, Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Gluck, Sherna Berger, An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1994.

Goodwin, Jan, Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World, Boston, MA, Little, Brown, 1994.

Gorkin, Michael and Rafiqa Othman, Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1996.

Grima, Benedicte, The performance of emotion among Paxtun women : "the misfortunes which have befallen me, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1992.

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Esposito, John L., Islam, Gender and Social Change, NYC, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN: 0195113578, Buy/Reviews.

Hijab, Nadia, Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Hikmat,Anwar, Women and the Koran: The Status of Women in Islam, NYC, Prometheus Books, 1997.

Hillmann, Michael C., A lonely woman : Forugh Farrokhzad and her poetry, Washington, D.C, Three Continents Press and Mage Publishers, 1987.

Hiltermann, Joost, Behind the Intifada: Labor and Womens Movement in the Occupied Territories, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991.

Holf, Maria, Half the People: Women, History and the Palestinian Intifada, Jerusalem, Passia, 1990.

Holton, Patricia, Mother Without a Mask: A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family, Cathie Kyle, 2001, ISBN: 185626288X, Buy/Reviews.

Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann, Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-520-22944-4, Buy/Reviews.

Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, Philadelphia, PA, University Press, 1991.

Khattab , Hind A.S, The Silent Endurance: Social Conditions of Women's Reproductive Health in Rural Egypt, Amman, UNICEF, 1992.

Khoury,Ran, Palestinian Women and the Intifada, Bethlehem, International Centre of Bethlehem, 1995.

Lobban, Richard (ed.), Middle eastern women and the invisible economy, Gainesville, FL, University of Florida Press, 1998.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, Woman's body, woman's word : gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing, Princeton, N.J, Princeton University Press1991?.

Mayer, Tamar (ed.), Women and the Israeli Occupation:The Politics of Change, New York, Routledge, 1994.

Mernissi, Fatima, Beyond the Veil: Male - Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society, London, Alsaqi Books, 1985.

Mernissi, Fatima, The Forgotten Queen of Islam, Cambridge, Eng, Cambridge Univ Press, 1993.

Mernissi, Fatima, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam, Toronto, Addison Wesley, 1991.

Mernissi, Fatima, Women and Islam: A Historical and Theological Inquiry, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1993.

Mikhail, Mona, Images of Arab women : fact and fiction : essays, Washington DC, Three Continents Press, 1979.

Minas, Juliette, The House of Obedience: Women in the Arab Society. Translated by Michael Pallis, London, Zed Books, 1989.

Mogannam, Matiel, The Arab Woman and the Palestine Problem, London, Herbert Joseph, 1937.

Mojab, Shahrzad, Women of a non-state nation: The Kurds, Costa Mesa, Calif, Mazda Publishers, 2001.

Nafisi, Azar, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, NYC, Random House, 2003, ISBN: 0375504907, Buy/Reviews.

Nahla Abdo-Zubi, Family, women and Social change in The Middle East: The Palestinian Case, Toronto, Canadian Scholars Press, 1987.

Najjar, Orayb Aref and Kitty Warnock, Portraits of Palestinian Women, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1992.

Ozdalga, Elisabeth, 1946, The veiling issue, official secularism and popular Islam in modern Turkey, Richmond, Surrey, Curzon, 1998.

Peteet, Julie, Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement, NYC, Columbia University Press, 1991.

Rein, Natalie, Daughters of Rachel: Women in Israel, New York, Penguin Books, 1980.

Rugh, Andrea B., Reveal and conceal : dress in contemporary Egypt, Syracuse, N.Y, Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Sabbagh, S. (ed.), Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998.

Sabbagh, Suha (ed.), Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint, Interlink Pub Group, 2002, ISBN: 1566561876, Buy/Reviews.

Sabbagh, Suha and Ghada Talhami, Images and Reality: Palestinian Women Under Occupation and in the Diaspora, DC, The Institute for Arab Women's Studies, 1990.

Seteney, Shami (et. al.), Women, Work and Social Position in Arab Society : Case Studies from Egypt, Jordan and Sudan, London, UNESCO, 1990.

Shaaban, Bouthaina (ed.), Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991.

Shakir, Evelyn, Bint Arab : Arab and Arab American women in the United States, Westport, CT, Praeger, 1997, ISBN: 0275956717, Buy/Reviews.

Sharoni, Simona, Gender and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Smith, Margaret, RABI'A The Life and Work of Rabi'a and other Women Mystics in Islam, Oxford, Oneworld Publications, 1994.

Spellberg, D. A., Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994.

Strum, Phillipa, The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution, NYC, Lawrence Hill Books, 1992.

Thompson, Elizabeth, Colonial Citizens : Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (History and Society of the Modern Middle East series), NYC, Columbia Univ Press, 2000.

Thornhill, Teresa, Making Women Talk: The Interrogation of Palestinian Detainees by the Israeli General Security Services, London, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, 1992.

Tucker, Judith E., Arab Women and Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993.

Van Doorn-Harder, Pieternella, Contemporary Coptic Nuns (Studies in Comparative Religion), University of South Carolina Press, 1995, ISBN: 1570030340, Buy/Reviews.

Warnock, Kitty, Land Before Honor: Palestinian Women in The Occupied Territories, NYC, Monthly Review Press, 1990.

White, Jenny B., Money makes us relatives : women's labor in urban Turkey, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1994.

Wilfong , Terry G., Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (New Texts from Ancient Cultures), Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2003, ISBN: 0472066129, Buy/Reviews.

Young, Elise G., Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, NYC, Teachers College Press, 1992.

See Also - Women in Judaism

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