 Complete the following phrase:  At the same time, multiple scholars assert that a large part of womens statuses in Middle Eastern society were dictated by the socioeconomic and political landscape of the specific time and region, and not necessarily by religion. This idea is supported by Crocco et al.s At the Crossroads of the World: Women of the Middle East, Okkenhaug and Flaskeruds Gender, Religion, and Change in the Middle East, and Keddie and Barons Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries of Sex and Gender. Crocco et al. argue, from a pedagogical perspective, that Middle Eastern womens history needs to be regarded and taught not only as the history of Islams impacts on women in the Middle East, but also the history of Christianitys and Judaisms impacts on their respective minority communities, and of the roles that class, political status, and economics have played in womens lives. They also assert that while religions, particularly Islam, have been viewed as sources of patriarchy, instances of womens subordination can be traced back to the development of 