{"id":23321,"date":"2024-04-28T22:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/how-have-womens-lives-in-the-middle-east-changed-over-the-course-of-the-20th-century\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:23:41","slug":"how-have-womens-lives-in-the-middle-east-changed-over-the-course-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/how-have-womens-lives-in-the-middle-east-changed-over-the-course-of-the-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"How have women&#8217;s lives in the Middle East changed over the course of the 20th century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 primary sources, 5 secondary sources. i&#8217;ll provide the secondary sources, but feel free to change them if you want.&nbsp;<span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Booth, Marilyn. \u201cWoman in Islam: Men<br \/>\nand the \u2018Women\u2019s Press\u2019 in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Egypt.\u201d <i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">International<br \/>\nJournal of Middle East Studies<\/i> 33, no. 2 (2001): 171\u2013201. <\/span><a style=\"font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/259561<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Skilled in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies,<br \/>\nMarilyn Booth published a paper titled &#8220;Woman in Islam: Men and the<br \/>\n&#8216;Women&#8217;s Press&#8217; in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Egypt.&#8221; She researched the<br \/>\nincrease in importance of women&#8217;s newspapers in Egypt during 1900. According to<br \/>\nBooth, these journals helped Egyptian women an attempt for their rights by<br \/>\ngiving them a voice in communities where men often held higher positions. She<br \/>\nsupported up her points with stories from history, newspaper articles, and<br \/>\nstudies. Booth explained how these publications discussed matters affecting<br \/>\nwomen as well as supporting and opposing the view that males belong in<br \/>\npositions of power. Her study sheds light on the interactions between men and<br \/>\nwomen as well as how gender stereotypes were formed in Egypt&#8217;s culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Agmon, Iris. \u201cWomen, Class, and<br \/>\nGender: Muslim Jaffa and Haifa at the Turn of the 20th Century.\u201d <i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">International<br \/>\nJournal of Middle East Studies<\/i> 30, no. 4 (1998): 477\u2013500. <\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/164337<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Iris Agmon, a Middle East researcher, wrote a paper titled<br \/>\n&#8220;Women, Class, and Gender: Muslim Jaffa and Haifa at the Turn of the 20th<br \/>\nCentury.&#8221; Her research focused on the late 1800s and early 1900s<br \/>\nlifestyles of Muslim women in Jaffa and Haifa. Agmon claims that societal views<br \/>\non gender roles and economic standing at the time had an effect on women&#8217;s life<br \/>\nin these areas. Her study offers a comprehensive examination of the<br \/>\nopportunities and difficulties that Muslim women in these regions faced during<br \/>\nthat particular historical period. Agmon used research from others as well as<br \/>\narchive materials to support her views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mahmood, Saba. <em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"padding: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Politics<br \/>\nof Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject<\/span><\/em>. Princeton:<br \/>\nPrinceton University Press, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The title of one of Saba Mahmood&#8217;s works is &#8220;Politics<br \/>\nof Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject.&#8221; She looks at how<br \/>\nEgyptian women at the center of the Islamic revival movement take on leadership<br \/>\npositions in the fields of religion and politics. Mahmood says that these women<br \/>\npurposely shape their identities in ways that violate stereotypes of feminists<br \/>\nin the West. She offers in-depth understanding of the relationship between<br \/>\ngender, religion, and activism in modern Muslim society, based on her studies<br \/>\nin Cairo. Mahmood&#8217;s writings are captivating and creative, providing us with a<br \/>\nnew viewpoint on Islam and feminism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Moghadam, Valentine M.,<br \/>\ned. <em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"padding: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Gender and National Identity:<br \/>\nWomen and Politics in Muslim Societies<\/span><\/em>. London: Zed Books, 1994. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The title of one book edited by Valentine M. Moghadam is<br \/>\n&#8220;Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim<br \/>\nSocieties.&#8221; It looks at how politics, gender, and nationalism interact in<br \/>\nMuslim societies. The book includes contributions from a wide range of experts<br \/>\nwho have studied how women participate into social, political, and cultural<br \/>\nlife during the 20th century. Using both recent and historical data, they show<br \/>\nhow women have shaped national identities and taken part in political movements<br \/>\nin countries where Muslims make up the majority of the population. Thanks to<br \/>\nMoghadam&#8217;s study, we now have a clearer knowledge of how women have been<br \/>\ninvolved in politics in Muslim countries throughout the past century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Hoodfar, Homa. <em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"padding: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate<br \/>\nPolitics and Survival in Cairo<\/span><\/em>. Berkeley: University of California<br \/>\nPress, 1997. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.25in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Homa Hoodfar is the author of<br \/>\nseveral books, including &#8220;Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate<br \/>\nPolitics and Survival in Cairo.&#8221; It covers the life of women in Cairo in<br \/>\nthe late 1900s. Hoodfar looks into how city women manage their kids and money.<br \/>\nShe studied this by interviewing people and conducting research on their lives.<br \/>\nThe book aids in our understanding of the challenges faced by women and the<br \/>\nstrategies they use to prosper in a city undergoing change. Hoodfar&#8217;s research<br \/>\nclarifies the ways in which gender roles and Egyptian culture are changing.<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 primary sources, 5 secondary sources. i&#8217;ll provide the secondary sources, but feel free to change them if you want.&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Booth, Marilyn. \u201cWoman in Islam: Men and the \u2018Women\u2019s Press\u2019 in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Egypt.\u201d International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, no. 2 (2001): 171\u2013201. http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/259561. &nbsp; Skilled in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies, Marilyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}