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These are some of the topics that you can use as to why historians of women and gender in the Middle East challenge orientalist perceptions.

• Experiences of women were not the same across class and economic statuses
• Geographically, even within a country, the experiences were very different (think urban vs rural women)
  • In different countries in the middle east, the role of women and family dynamic was different
• Role of education
  • Society’s advancement was linked to the education of women
• Challenging the idea that Middle Eastern women were in need of liberation from Islam
  • There is evidence that other factors had more of an impact on the role of women in the middle east
• Activism
  • Women played an important role in the nationalist movements in different countries (Egypt)
• The field has grown to consider gender as a topic of discussion (lens used) regarding the middle east
• “Scott’s Question”
  • Going beyond the idea of adding women into the existing narratives to be a history which more fully explores the history of women and gender
• Women are not unchanging across time
  • The role of women evolved, the feminist movement changed over time
• Qualitative expansion of the field
  • New sources, interdisciplinary, the field has grown as a whole