Tucker, Women in nineteenth-century Egypt.

Condition : very good.
Illustrations : some black and white illustrations in the text.

More than a general treatise on women in Egypt. It is a subtle and skilful analysis of gender and class during the transformation of Egyptian society in the 19th century and it is this underlying theme that makes Judith Tucker's book a stimulating read. She offers an interesting theoretical approach in which an anthropologist, accustomed to working on women's issues in peripheral and local community contexts, and a historian, concerned with the social and economic history of women and class, can find common ground.