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Article: Family in the Middle East: ideational change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.(Book review)
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
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- June 22, 2009
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YOUNT, Kathryn M. and Hoda RASHAD (Eds.). FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IDEATIONAL CHANGE IN EGYPT, IRAN, AND TUNISIA. New York: Roudedge, 2008, 269 pp., (h) $140.
This edited volume makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on families in North Africa and the Middle East. Through historical and contemporary comparisons of three countries - Tunisia, Egypt, and Iran - readers are offered sophisticated frameworks for understanding the impact of national and international structural and ideational forces on family life. Authors engage in critiques of Western frameworks of modernity and developmental progress as potentially colonizing forces, exploring ...