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12 - Women, gender and sexuality

from PART II - SOCIETIES, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2011

By
Manuela Marín
Edited by
Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Women and gender

The history of women in Islamic societies has made steady progress over the last few decades, following the spectacular growth of the field in other historiographical arenas. Particularly, although not exclusively, Ottomanists have contributed to the increase in publications on women’s history, thanks to the richness of Ottoman archives. For other periods of Islamic history the lack of archival evidence has not hindered the completion of some good studies based upon other sources: literary works, chronicles, biographical dictionaries or juridical writings. To some extent these different sources are complementary. While archival documents illuminate the lives of ordinary individuals making an appearance in court, other texts inform us about societal attitudes, normative rulings and transgressions. Biographical accounts, although normally restricted to specific social groups, such as urban elites or sovereign families, have the added value of charting women’s lives across a longer period of time, which is usually impossible from research into archival documents. In a challenge to the traditional view of women in classical Islam as unknown, hidden and passive members of society, research based upon all these sources increasingly demonstrates the crucial role played by gender and gendered attitudes and norms.

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The New Cambridge History of Islam , pp. 355 - 380
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Print publication year: 2010

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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

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Save book to Dropbox

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Save book to Google Drive

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