Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Note on transliteration and dates
- Introduction
- 1 Ploughs and shares: women, agricultural production, and property
- 2 Spindles and songs: women in urban occupations
- 3 Private and public life: women and the growth of the State
- 4 Women, resistance, and repression
- 5 The practice of slavery: women as property
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The court records, overview and sample
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Note on transliteration and dates
- Introduction
- 1 Ploughs and shares: women, agricultural production, and property
- 2 Spindles and songs: women in urban occupations
- 3 Private and public life: women and the growth of the State
- 4 Women, resistance, and repression
- 5 The practice of slavery: women as property
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The court records, overview and sample
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt , pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985