Women in Lebanon

1. Introduction
Marie-Claude Thomas

Part I. Saghbine, a Christian Village: Women, Religion, and Society

2. Geography and Religious Spaces
Marie-Claude Thomas

3. Childhood and Adolescence of Young Girls
Marie-Claude Thomas

4. Marriages and the Condition of Married Women
Marie-Claude Thomas

5. Adulthood, Married Life, and Women’s Work Outside the House
Marie-Claude Thomas

Part II. Muslim Lebanese Women and an Islamic Modernity

6. Islam in Lebanon: An Overview
Marie-Claude Thomas

7. Struggle in Modern Islam
Marie-Claude Thomas

8. Veiling and Divergent Feminist Voices
Marie-Claude Thomas

9. Personal Status Laws in Islam: Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah’s New Tafsir (Exegesis)
Marie-Claude Thomas

Part III. Transformation within a Multicultural Lebanon

10. Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Lebanese Women
Marie-Claude Thomas

11. Christian-Muslim Relations, Women, and Religion
Marie-Claude Thomas

12. Lebanese Women in All Their Diversity: Convergence and Divergence
Marie-Claude Thomas

13. En Route toward a More Inclusive Civil Society
Marie-Claude Thomas

14. Conclusion
Marie-Claude Thomas

Keywords: Social Sciences, Ethnography, Middle Eastern Politics, Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Culture, Sociology of Religion, Religious Studies, general