Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean

Fatima Sadiqi is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship. Her main research interests are language, culture, and women’s and gender issues in North Africa. She is currently writing a book with the provisional title A Feminism of One’s Own: Women’s Empowerment in Morocco – Going Beyond Islam.

• Introduction – Fatima Sadiqi Part I : Women and Written Knowledge 1 A Sceptical Cast of Mind – Marjorie Lightman 2 Women and Knowledge in Italy and Venice During the Early Modern Period: Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella – Paola Malpezzi 3 Seven Francophone Mediterranean Women Writers Speak Out Inside and Outside – Evelyne Accad 4 Moroccan Women Authors of French Expression : Feminine Voices of La Littérature Monde in the Age of Globalization – Valerie Orlando 5 The necessity of Having it Both Ways : Tradition, Modernity and Experience in the Works of Hele Beji – Debbie Barnard Part II : Women and Oral Knowledge 6 Textual Orality and Knowledge of Illiterate Women : The Textual performance of Jewish Women in Morocco – Joseph Chetrit 7 Berber Women’s Oral Knowledge – Fatima Sadiqi Part III : Women, Legal, Religious and Economic Knowledge 8 Morocco’s 2004 Family Code Moudawana : Improving Access to Justice for Women – Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt 9 Women’s Access to Legal Knowledge : The Case of Palestinian Women’s NGOs in Israel – Liat Kozma 10 Women and Religious Knowledge : Focus on Muslim Women Preachers – Moha Ennaji 11 Women and Reproductive Knowledge in the Mediterranean – Rachel Newcomb Part IV : Women and Media Knowledge 12 Contextualising the Gender Representation in Cyprus Television – Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou 13 Gender and Political Engagement : A Role for the Media in the Malta – Carmen Sammut 14 Stepping Out : Women Bloggers in Their Discontents – Marilyn Tadros