Rural Muslim peasant women held more freedom than urban women

Evidence

Peasant women had from time immemorial been part of the work-force and had, in consequence, enjoyed certain social freedoms denied to their sisters in the cities. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1147

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, counterintuitive nugget — that rural backwardness tracked with relative female freedom rather than oppression.
• XREF: connects to: Socioeconomic and political conditions affect women’s rights far more than Islam itself — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 289; Women’s rights in MENA vary with socioeconomic conditions, not Islam — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 289; Rural peasant families were more patriarchal than working-class families in the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 560
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Socioeconomic and political conditions affect women’s rights far more than Islam itself — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 289; Women’s rights in MENA vary with socioeconomic conditions, not Islam — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 289; Rural peasant families were more patriarchal than working-class families in the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 560

Broader Connections

• Rural peasant families were more patriarchal than working-class families in the 1930s #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 560