Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Introduction
pp. 121-122(2)
Author: Duby, Georges

Women in Mesopotamia
pp. 123-144(22)
Author: Stol, M.

Femmes dans la Ville Mamlūke
pp. 145-164(20)
Author: Chapoutot-Remadi, Mounira

Women and Economic Change: The Pepper Trade in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia
pp. 165-190(26)
Author: Watson Andaya, Barbara

The Cultivation of Female Talent
pp. 191-223(33)
Author: Wing-Chung Ho, Clara

Gender and China Studies
pp. 224-231(8)
Author: Hevia, James L.

GAY ROBINS, Women in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1993. 17 x 24 cm. Pp. 205, bibliogr., index. ISBN 0 7141 0956 8. £ 14.95
pp. 232-233(2)
Author: Eyre, Christopher J.

LESLIE P. PIERCE, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, £ 45.00.
pp. 233-235(3)
Author: Paris, Mireille

E. VAN DONZEL, ed., An Arabian Princess between Two Worlds. Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs and Usages. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1993. Hfl. 250, —/US$ 143.—
pp. 236-237(2)
Author: Penrad, Jean-Claude

PATRICIA BUCKLEY EBREY, The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Women in the Sung Period. Foreword by Bonnie Smith. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993, XIX + 332 pp. Illustrated. $ 45.00 (hardback; ISBN 0-520-08156-0); $ 16.00 (paperback; ISBN 0-520-08158-7).
pp. 238-239(2)
Author: de Pee, Christian

LOUISE P. EDWARDS, Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in The Red Chamber Dream, Leiden: (E. J Brill: 1994), 161 pp. + bibliography and index. Hf. 125/$ 71.50
pp. 240-243(4)
Author: Widmer, Ellen

BAI HUA, The Remote Country of Women. Translated from the Chinese by Qingyun Wu and Thomas O Beebee. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8248-1591-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-8248-1611-0 (paper). Price: cloth US$ 38.00, paper US$ 14.95.
pp. 243-245(3)
Author: Keijser, Anne Sytske