Under the headings of gender discourses, women's work and development, politics and power, and gender roles and relations, this work addresses Arab women's changing lives.

Tucker, 'The Arab Family in History: 'Otherness' and the Study of the Family'; Susan Schaefer Davis, 'Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town'; Evelyne Accad, 'Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context: Arab Women's Special Contribution to Literature'.

Introduction
Judith E. Tucker
Part 1
Gender Discourses
I. WomenOs Issues in Modern Islamic Thought
Barbara F. Stowasser
II. Toward the Development of Post-Islamist and Post-Nationalist Feminist Discourses in the Middle East
Mervat Hatem
III. Authenticity and Gender
The Presentation of Culture
Julie M. Peteet
Part 2
WomenOs Work and Development
IV. Women and Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Syria
The Case of Aleppo
Margaret L. Meriwether
V. Getting It Together
Baladi Egyptian Businesswomen
Evelyn Aleen Early
VI. Palestinian Women under Israeli Occupation
Implications for Development
Souad Dajani
Part 3
Politics and Power
VII. Independent Women
More Than a Century of Feminism in Egypt
Margot Badran
VIII. Transforming Culture or Fostering Second-Hand Consciousness?
WomenOs Front Organizations and Revolutionary Parties--The Sudan Case
Sondra Hale
IX. Palestinian Women and Politics in Lebanon
Rosemary Sayigh
Part 4
Gender Roles and Relations
X. The Arab Family in History
OOthernessO and the Study of the Family
Judith E. Tucker
XI. Changing Gender Relations in a Moroccan Town
Susan Schaefer Davis
XII. Rebellion, Maturity, and the Social Context
Arab WomenOs Special Contribution to Literature
Evelyne Accad
Contributors
Index