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This book is unrivaled as an undergraduate textbook dealing with the gendered transformations in the Middle East over the last two hundred years. Combining their depth of knowledge and experience of teaching undergraduates and drawing on recent scholarship, the authors provide a lucid, accessible, and judicious introduction to the diverse and dynamic history of women’s lives in the modern Middle East. Thematically and geographically wide-ranging, the authors provide insightful and engrossing accounts of the various ways in which women from diverse backgrounds and contexts< ranging from royal women in the Ottoman empire to factory workers in Lebanon to political activists in the Arab Spring, have lived, worked, and contributed to the economic, cultural, and social life of their societies and the multifaceted ways in which women have experienced and negotiated major social and political transformations and upheavals. This is not only an essential book for undergraduate courses but a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, the modern Middle East, and comparative history. Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Associate Professor of History, Director of Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Kenyon College, USA

This book is unrivaled as an undergraduate textbook dealing with the gendered transformations in the Middle East over the last two hundred years. Combining their depth of knowledge and experience of teaching undergraduates and drawing on recent scholarship, the authors provide a lucid, accessible, and judicious introduction to the diverse and dynamic history of women’s lives in the modern Middle East. Thematically and geographically wide-ranging, the authors provide insightful and engrossing accounts of the various ways in which women from diverse backgrounds and contexts< ranging from royal women in the Ottoman empire to factory workers in Lebanon to political activists in the Arab Spring, have lived, worked, and contributed to the economic, cultural and social life of their societies and the multifaceted ways in which women have experienced and negotiated major social and political transformations and upheavals. This is not only an essential book for undergraduate courses but a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, the modern Middle East, and comparative history. Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Associate Professor of History, Director of Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Kenyon College, USA

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Lisa Pollard is Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is co-editor of Families of a New World (2001) and author of Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (2005). Additional publications include “From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the ‘House of Egypt’” (2010) and “Teaching Muslim Women’s History between Timeless-ness and Change: 18 Parts of Desire” (2014). Mona L. Russell is an Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. She is the author of Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922 (2004) and Egypt: Middle East in Focus (2013). She has published widely on gender, education and consumerism, most recently, “The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic” (2021) and “Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women” (2021).

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