Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East – serie
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Anxiety of Erasure
Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
Häftad, 2019
313 kr
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Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of …
War's Other Voices
Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Av Miriam Cooke
Häftad, 1996
249 kr
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This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme.
Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Av J. Michael Ryan, Helen Rizzo
Inbunden, 2024
929 kr
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Issues of sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa have served as a lightning rod for international discussions surrounding the treatment of those who identify as LGBTQ+, sexual and reproductive health, and the prevention of sexual violence. While a growing body of scholarship and internal …
Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Av J. Michael Ryan, Helen Rizzo
Häftad, 2024
427 kr
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Issues of sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa have served as a lightning rod for international discussions surrounding the treatment of those who identify as LGBTQ+, sexual and reproductive health, and the prevention of sexual violence. While a growing body of scholarship and internal …
Istanbul Appearances
Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey
Häftad, 2023
384 kr
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In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among younger and middle-aged women. Turkey now ranks among the top countries worldwide with the highest number of …
Living Law
Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco
Inbunden, 2025
754 kr
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When modern debates about Islamic law and women’s rights make headlines, they often overlook centuries of history where Muslim women actively engaged with and shaped Islamic legal traditions. In Living Law, Rosemary Admiral reveals how women in premodern Morocco weren’t merely subjects of Islamic …
Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home
Syrian Women Displaced
Av Leila Hudson
Inbunden, 2025
788 kr
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While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or brief anecdotes, the real story of displacement unfolds in the intimate spaces of family life. Through the interwoven narratives of five middle-aged sisters from Damascus, Lines of Flight, Assemblages …
Muslim Women and Politics of Participation
Implementing the Beijing Platform
Häftad, 1997
216 kr
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This volume is about the ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising conciousness and changing codes of law, to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies.
Intimate Selving in Arab Families
Gender, Self, and Identity
Av Suad Joseph
Häftad, 1999
328 kr
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This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.
Missing Persians
Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History
Häftad, 2001
225 kr
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This work serves to articulate the disparate, dispersed, and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Its complex arguments show five figures' links to a stable Persian identity - complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.
Women of Jordan
Islam, Labor, and the Law
Av Amira Sonbol
Inbunden, 2003
125 kr
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An incisive study of the past, present, and future of Jordanian and Palestinian women women and issues of employment, education, human rights, Islamic law, and legal practice. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a …
Intersections
Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
Av Lisa Suhair Majaj, Lisa Suhair Majaj m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
249 kr
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A true ""intersection"" of Arab women's texts that challenges and rewrites the traditional boundaries of nation, gender, and community. This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women …
No Shame for the Sun
Lives of Professional Pakistani Women
Av Shahla Haeri
Häftad, 2002
272 kr
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Six candid interviews introduce readers to a class of Muslim women rarely acknowledged in the West. The book aims to shed light on the status, conflicts and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. They tell of the conflicts and compromises with family and community, while facing …
Voices from Iran
The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
Häftad, 2002
216 kr
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In the late 1990s, Mahnaz Kousha interviewed 15 Iranian women in Tehran who originally came from cities and towns throughout Iran. The youngest was 38, the eldest in her 50s. Extensive excerpts from their dialogues comprise the heart of this volume. The women explore their relationships with their …
Beyond the Exotic
Women's Histories in Islamic Societies
Häftad, 2005
500 kr
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This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which ""they"" have been studied in the past. Most research has treated stereotypical images of Muslim women's outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive …
Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan
Häftad, 2005
272 kr
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This book examines gender, women's involvement, and sexuality in the ideologies and strategies of a transnational Palestinian political movement. This book focuses on the central party apparatus of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Democratic Front (DF) branches …
Living Palestine
Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation
Av Lisa Taraki
Inbunden, 2006
509 kr
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This groundbreaking volume takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about such issues as tradition vs. modernity and the socio-cultural …
Living Palestine
Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation
Av Lisa Taraki
Häftad, 2006
275 kr
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This groundbreaking volume takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about such issues as tradition vs. modernity and the socio-cultural …
Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women's Writing
Av Brinda Mehta
Inbunden, 2007
886 kr
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This volume carefully assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women's lives as portrayed in literature. Encompassing women writers and critics from Arab, French, and English traditions, it forges a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. Brinda Mehta …
Arab Women's Lives Retold
Exploring Identity Through Writing
Häftad, 2007
432 kr
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Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this anthology explores the ways in which Arab women have portrayed and created their identities within differing social environments. Even as the collection dismantles standard notions of Arab …
Off the Straight Path
Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo
Inbunden, 2008
345 kr
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The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women's studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that relationship are rarely addressed in the current …
Representing the Unpresentable
Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran
Inbunden, 2008
342 kr
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In this pioneering book, Negar Mottahedeh explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. She focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture in the production of the contemporary nation. Tracing the historical mediation and dissemination of …
Contesting Realities
The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen
Inbunden, 2010
509 kr
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Situated in the southernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula, Aden is considered the economic capital of the Republic of Yemen. Once a British colony, the port city later served as the capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, the only Marxist regime in the Middle East. Tracing the social …
Words, not Swords
Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Inbunden, 2011
726 kr
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A woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power to pick up and go as one pleases, has not been a traditional …
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Inbunden, 2014
693 kr
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History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who are farthest removed from power the lead actors in this history. Focusing on orphans and destitute youth of the late Ottoman Empire, the …
Arab and Arab American Feminisms
Gender, Violence, and Belonging
Av Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
331 kr
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Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centred struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class …
Interpreters of Occupation
Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network
Häftad, 2016
399 kr
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During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters—translating the ""human terrain"" of Iraq—members of this network urgently honed …
Interpreters of Occupation
Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network
Inbunden, 2016
703 kr
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During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters—translating the ""human terrain"" of Iraq—members of this network urgently honed …
Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt
Av Mariz Tadros
Inbunden, 2016
239 kr
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On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country’s history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens and likewise as women demanding social change …
Off the Straight Path
Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo
Häftad, 2016
272 kr
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The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women’s studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that relationship are rarely addressed in the current …
