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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. The present volume contains original scientific articles about the changing roles of women in developing countries of the Middle East. Each sociologist in this volume attempts to focus on the past traditional roles of Muslim women. He also identifies directions of change rate of change and the causes of change in womens roles in Muslim countries. The family sociologists also try to point out that these recent changes in the status of Muslim women may recast marriage and the family in new and different molds. Since the original articles cover a uniform series of topics comparisons are possible. This collection of articles will be valuable in comparative study of women and others interested in changing sex roles and social change in third world countries. In particular sociologists and other social scientists in western and non western countries are more likely to benefit from these changing roles of Muslim women. (jacket) 205 pp.