Economics, Education, Mobility And Space

This is the fourth of a planned six-volume work "envisioned as a broad based, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, transhistorical encyclopedia, focusing specifically on women and Islamic cultures, but also including non-Muslim women in cultures where Islam has had a significant presence. Whereas previous volumes have been dedicated to methodologies, paradigms, and sources; family, law, and politics; and family, body, sexuality, and health and the remaining volumes will treat practices, interpretations, and representations and provide a general index and supplementary material, this volume is concerned with economics, education, mobility, and space and other issues related to the material conditions facing Muslim women generally and non-Muslim women in Muslim majority societies. General editor Joseph (U. of California at Davis) and his associates present 263 entries covering 87 topics (including 15 overviews) within the broad headings of cities, development, economics, education, environment, information technologies, migration, poverty, slavery, space, and tourism. Each specific topic (e.g. "Migration: Refugee Women's Narratives," "Education: Women's Religious," or "Space: Domestic") is further broken down into country-specific or region-specific articles that follow the topical overview article. Name and subject indexes are provided for the single volume. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has publishedIntimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (Syracuse University Press,1999),Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).