This volume of Tebaa is addressing a rarely-dealt with subject in Arabic studies contexts; Women and the Private Atmosphere. In the light of this subject, this volume presents a number of articles and books relevant to the subject of interest. First of all, the book No Turing Back: the History of Feminism is the Future of Women’s Rights, discusses the idea of the impossible separation between what is public and private of women’s rights. Furthermore, the book crystallizes the idea by illustrating that this separation causes women to lose many of their rights when considering their relation to their private life. Thus, their loss of rights puts them in second place in regards to their public roles. The book also tackles the history of the feminist movement; as it breaks the ice between the public and private, in order to attain political rights for women.

Another topic is hinted through the abstract of the book, Drawing the limits: the definition of women within the feminist practice. It presents feminist concepts and practices through the philosophy of Fundamental Criticism and the logic of “look and contemplate”. Out of this book, the writer concludes that there are feminist atmospheres surpassing the limits of public and private. In each of the movements, the private and public are formed according to the purpose which a certain group seeks in a certain historical moment.
 
The article, “The Difficulties parents face in participating in Childcare” tackles a subject which has been generally overlooked when addressing the domestic sphere; as it addresses the role of men in that sphere. It refers to their role as fathers who take care of their children, yet also looking at the obstacles they would face in trying to fulfill this role, such as the undesirability of childcare.
The article “The domestic atmosphere of men and women: weakness and strength, sides of the dual Anthropology” supplements the previous discussion since it addresses the problem regarding the duality of the public and private spheres. It does so by using an anthropological perspective from different societies, in an attempt to highlight its complexities .

The study, “Relations between nationality and inheritance: individual, power and ownership in Palestine” comes to confirm the idea that despite the availability of some of women’s rights in males’ money – provided by Islam and law – the application on reality in the Palestinian society is totally different (and may be other Islamic society). The main relation between the two genders and the social class is the main determinant of women’s access, or lack of access to their rights. The book , The Egyptian woman’s issues between heritage and reality, presents a different image for women in several Egyptian societies; rural, urban, and Bedouin societies. This research concludes other results ascertaining that women in Egypt do not access their rights from the Islamic Shari’a. This is a result of the norms and traditions which are obstacles in women’s access of their rights.

The documents section presents a number of documents that tackle the determinants of marriage for nurses in the 19th century. The documents assure the governments’ interference in the nurses’ life, whether in the vocational or domestic life, to the extent that it obliges her to get married from one work in a governmental job. This was considered discriminatory against women at the start of their exposure to the public sphere. Moreover, the documents present barefaced evidence about the marginalized women’s work in the government. For example, the nurse may be dismissed from her job as a result of her marriage partner, where an unmarried nurse would be recruited in return.