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Show 6 of themselves awareness as members of contributing society. The Middle East region has undergone tremendous modernization pressures which have affected many of the social The Muslim Middle and distinct patterns.2 histories, cultures, customs, laws, ethnic groups and various class-stratification systems. writings continually stress, is community essentially a and individual variation of Middle Eastern women Cole elaborates on the a solution to ties as make personality according probles arising "agrarian capitalists." as it by Juan Ricardo relates to support for changes and to the needs He argues that for the and ideology that of reactions to interests of each upper-middle class, feminism from their For Lois Beck's in any Muslim He observes that the Egypt. religious generalizations about A recent article feminism grew out of indigenous social class level. women As and Thus, class differentiation class stratification issues varied of position class issue. difficult.3 the feminist movement in feminist having varied East consists of many countries men new needs and was responsibili- of lower-middle class, the 2Many studies deal with the changes of Middle East society in transition and the conflicts of modernization or what is often ex pressed as "Westernization." These include: Daniel Lerner, Passing of Trad it i ona 1 Soc i ety (Gl encoe, III i no is: The Free Press of Gl encoe, 1963); Jacques Berque, The Arabs: Their History and Future, trans. Jean Stewart (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1964); Morroe Berger, The Arab World Today (New York: Doubleday, 1964); Saad Ibrahim and Nicholas Hopkins, eds. Arab Society in Transition (Cairo; American University Press, 1977); John Waterbury, Egy t: Burdens of the Past, Options for the Future (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978 Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith, Becoming 1odern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974 ) • 3Lois "The Religious Lives of 1uslim Women" in vJomen in im tusl Societies, ed. Jane 1. Smith (London: Associated Contemporary University Press, 1980), p. 28. Beck, |
