TY - BOOK AU - Hopkins,Nicholas S. AU - Ibrahim,Saad Eddin TI - Arab society: class, gender, power, and development SN - 9774244044 (pbk.) AV - HN 766 .A8 A7 1997 U1 - 909.04927 PY - 1997/// CY - Cairo, Egypt PB - American University in Cairo Press KW - Arab countries KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- KW - Population N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Class structure and social change in the Arab world; Samih K. Farsoun --; Change in Saudi Arabia : a view from "Paris of Nejd"; Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole --; State, legitimacy and democratization in the Maghreb; Abdelbaki Hermassi --; From demographic explosion to social rupture; Philippe Fargues --; State, women and civil society : an evaluation of Egypt's population policy; Saad Eddin Ibrahim --; Fertility and social change in Oman : women's perspectives; Christine Eickelman --; Women's autonomy and the limits of population policy in Egypt; Barbara Ibrahim, Laila Nawar, and Cynthia B. Lloyd --; Manshiet Nasser : a Cairo neighborhood; Belgin Tekçe, Linda Oldham, and Frederic C. Shorter --; Childhood and childcare in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan; Seteny Shami and Lucine Taminian --; Haddou : a Moroccan migrant worker; David McMurray --; Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town; Susan Schaefer Davis --; Brother-sister relationships : connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon; Suad Joseph --; We'll talk later; Rhoda Kanaaneh --; Economic aspects of the qat industry in north-west Yemen; Shelagh Weir --; Small farmer households and agricultural sustainability in Egypt; Nicholas S. Hopkins --; Shayks, peasants, and party comrades : political changes in northern Syria; Sulayman N. Khalf --; The 'Bread Revolt' in rural Tunisia : notables, workers, peasants; Mouldi Lahmar --; Pluralism in the Arab World; Iliya Harik --; Economic liberalization and the lineages of the rentier state : Iraq and Saudi Arabia compared; Kiren Aziz Chaudhry --; The peace process, national reconstruction, and the transition to democracy in Palestine; Khalil Shikaki --; Kuwaiti women at a crossroads : privileged development and the constraints of ethnic stratification; Anh Nga Longva --; A tale of two factories; Khaled Kamel --; Environmental threats in Jordan and Syria; Marc Lavegne --; The human and ecological impact of the civil war in the Sudan; Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed --; Human rights and cultural specificity : some reflections; Rashad Antonius --; Organizing for the rights of women : Tunisian voices; Kevin Dwyer --; Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan; Susan M. Kenyon --; Islam and the gendered discourses of death; Lila Abu-Lughod --; Authority and the mosque in upper Egypt : the Islamic preacher as image and actor; Patrick D. Gaffney --; Economic change, social structure and religious fanaticism; Galal Amin ER -