Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

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 Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.