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MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN AND THE INVISIBLE ECONOMY.

Africa Today,  January, 2000  by Spaulding, Jay

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Lobban, Richard A., Jr., ed. 1998. MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN AND THE INVISIBLE ECONOMY. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 302 pp. No price given (cloth).

Think of this stimulating and insightful volume as a contribution to the literature of exploration and discovery. The "Middle East" of the title is preponderantly African; it embraces Egypt (seven studies), Tunisia (three), the Sudan (two), Lebanon and the Yemen (one study each). The contribution set in the Yemen, moreover, examines a subordinate status group of real or putative African origin. The ...

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