Writing Women's Worlds

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Veiled Sentiments (UC Press) and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. She is the editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East and the coeditor, most recently, of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory.

• List of IllustrationsPreface to the Fifteenth Anniversary EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgmentsKeeping the Names StraightIntroductionONE PatrilinealityTWO PolygynyTHREE ReproductionFOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin MarriageFIVE Honor and ShameTranscriptions of Arabic Poems and SongsBibliography