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Presents the first comprehensive picture of women's status and opportunities in the late eighteenth century

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Women in the Eyes of Men: Myth and Reality
• 2. Political Struggles: The Search for Leadership
• 3. Society in Mamluk Egypt: The Elites
• 4. Indigenous Elites in the Eighteenth Century: Ulama and Tujjar
• 5. Artisans and Ayan: Urban and Rural Middle and Lower Classes in the Eighteenth Century
• 6. The Nineteenth Century: The Advent of Centralization
• Appendix A. Mamluk Elites
• Appendix B. Native Elites
• Appendix C. Women of Artisanal Classes
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Afaf Marsot was the first Egyptian woman to receive a D.Phil. from Oxford University. She is Professor of History at UCLA.

Reviews

Like all of Marsot's writings, this book is engaging and highly readable. Undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in other fields will find it an accessible overview of later Ottoman Egyptian society, the role of gender therein, and key issues in the historiography of this important topic. (American Historical Review)