Arab feminisms : gender and equality in the Middle East /
edited by Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi and Rafif Rida Sidawi.
- xxxvi, 440 pages ; 24 cm.
- Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; Vol 7 .
- Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 7. .
"The papers in this book, originally written in Arabic, were translated into English by Ellen Khoury"--Title page verso. "The chapters in this volume were originally delivered at a conference entitled 'Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective, ' helt at the American University of Beirut, 4-7 October 2009"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Variety in Understanding Feminist Concepts and Discourse -- What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms / Gender Studies in the Arab World: Reflections and Questions on the Challenges of Discourses, Locations and History / Recognition of Difference: Towards a More Effective Feminism / Research Methods and Probing Feminist Thought / From Women's Rights to Feminism: The Urgent Need for an Arab Feminist Renaissance / Feminist Discourse in the Arab Theatre / Huqouq alma'a: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women's Movement / Femininity and Feminist Studies: Research, the Researcher and Cultural Constrictions in Lebanon / The Creative Arab Woman: Opposing the Stereotypical Image and Dismantling the Prevalent Discourse / Does Saudi Feminism Exist? / Arab Feminism -- Obstacles and Possibilities: An Analytical Study of the Women's Movement in the Arab World / The Intellectual Frameworks and Theoretical Limits of Arab Feminist Thought / Feminism's Difference Problem / Feminism as Critique / The Crisis of Feminism in the Context of War, Civil Conflict and Military Intervention -- Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) / Palestinian Feminist Organizations in the Post-Oslo Era: The Binary Nature of Feminist Discourse / Liberation Struggles: Reflections on the Palestinian Women's Movement / Indigenizing Feminist Knowledge: Palestinian Feminist Thought Between the Physics of International Power and the Theology of Racist 'Security' / The Developing Role of Colonial Feminists in Iraq / Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities / Women Struggling Against the Legacy of Colonialism in East Asia / Conflicts and Wars: Women's Silent Discourse / The Role of Feminist Movements in Establishing Peace and Improving the Condition of Women in Areas of Armed Conflict / Terrorizing Masculinities and Ambivalent Responses in Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched / The Child Torn Between War and the Adult World: In the Battlefields by Danielle Arbid / Islamic Feminism: Approaches and Visions -- Sisters in Islam / Accounting for Affect: Kuwaiti Women Between Freedom and Apathy / Islamic Feminism in Egypt: Between Acceptance and Rejection / Islamic Feminism: A New Feminist Movement or a Strategy by Women for Acquiring Rights? / Trends and Directions in Contemporary Islamic Feminist Research / Post-structuralist Theory and Women in the Middle East: Going in Circles? / Two Faces of the Revival of Feminist Qur'anic Exegesis: 'A'isha Abd al-Rahman and Amina Wadud / Rokeya in the World: Feminism and Islam in Twentieth-century Bengal / Feminism in a Global Context -- Tracing Dollars, Mapping Colonial Feminism: America Funds Women's 'Democracy' Training in Iraq / Gender in Modern Counterinsurgency / Reading Between the Lines: Sexual Politics and Publishing in the Age of Public Diplomacy / The Blind Traditional Subject and Suitcase Patriarchies / Black Feminism and the World / Between Feminism and Social Engineering: The Troubled Trajectory of International Gender Activism / Mervat Hatem Hoda Elsadda Najla Hamadeh Nahawand el Kadri Issa Zeina Zaatari Watfa Hamadi Jean Said Makdisi Noha Bayoumi Fawzia Abdullah Abu-Khaled Hatoon Ajwad el-Fassi Suad Zayed al-Oraimi Kaltham al-Ghanim Joan W. Scott Nivedita Menon Islah Jad Eileen Kuttab Amal Amireh Nadera Sbalhoub-Kevorkian Haifa Zangana Elaheh Rostami-Povey Mari Oka Anicée al Amine Merhi Amira Yousef al-Badri Dina Georgis Dalia Said Mustafa Zainah Anwar Mai al-Nakib Hoda El-Saadi Amal Grami Omaima Abou-Bakr Marnia Lazreg Husn Abboud Elora Shehabuddin Shahrzad Mojab Laleh Khalili Vron Ware Kumkum Sangari Hazel Carby Deniz Kandiyoti Part 1 1 Hatem, Mervat 3 -- 2 Elsadda, Hoda 19 -- 3 Hamadeh, Najla 31 -- 4 Issa, Nahawand el Kadri 41 -- 5 Zaatari, Zeina 54 -- 6 Hamadi, Watfa 66 -- 7 Makdisi, Jean Said 78 -- 8 Bayoumi, Noha 90 -- 9 Abu-Khaled, Fawzia Abdullah 108 -- 10 el-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad 121 -- 11 al-Oraimi, Suad Zayed 132 -- 12 al-Ghanim, Kaltham 145 -- 13 Scott, Joan W. 157 -- 14 Menon, Nivedita 164 -- Part 2 15 Jad, Islah 171 -- 16 Kuttab, Eileen 183 -- 17 Amireh, Amal 195 -- 18 Sbalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera 205 -- 19 Zangana, Haifa 217 -- 20 Rostami-Povey, Elaheh 230 -- 21 Oka, Mari 239 -- 22 Merhi, Anicée al Amine 243 -- 23 al-Badri, Amira Yousef 257 -- 24 Georgis, Dina 269 -- 25 Mustafa, Dalia Said 279 -- Part 3 26 Anwar, Zainah 291 -- 27 al-Nakib, Mai 296 -- 28 El-Saadi, Hoda 305 -- 29 Grami, Amal 317 -- 30 Abou-Bakr, Omaima 333 -- 31 Lazreg, Marnia 344 -- 32 Abboud, Husn 355 -- 33 Shehabuddin, Elora 368 -- Part 4 34 Mojab, Shahrzad 379 -- 35 Khalili, Laleh 389 -- 36 Ware, Vron 398 -- 37 Sangari, Kumkum 411 -- 38 Carby, Hazel 416 -- 39 Kandiyoti, Deniz 420.
Translated from the Arabic.
9781780766720 1780766726
2015510968
GBB4A5154 bnb
016647575 Uk
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Feminism--Middle East.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Feminism.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Muslim women--Social conditions.
Women--Social conditions.
Feminismus
Frau
Gleichstellung
Muslimska kvinnor.
Sociala förhållanden.
Feminism.
Feminism--religiösa aspekter.
Kvinnorörelsen.
Mellanöstern.
Middle East.
Naher Osten
Aufsatzsammlung.
HQ1170 / .A72 2014
305.420956
"The papers in this book, originally written in Arabic, were translated into English by Ellen Khoury"--Title page verso. "The chapters in this volume were originally delivered at a conference entitled 'Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective, ' helt at the American University of Beirut, 4-7 October 2009"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Variety in Understanding Feminist Concepts and Discourse -- What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms / Gender Studies in the Arab World: Reflections and Questions on the Challenges of Discourses, Locations and History / Recognition of Difference: Towards a More Effective Feminism / Research Methods and Probing Feminist Thought / From Women's Rights to Feminism: The Urgent Need for an Arab Feminist Renaissance / Feminist Discourse in the Arab Theatre / Huqouq alma'a: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women's Movement / Femininity and Feminist Studies: Research, the Researcher and Cultural Constrictions in Lebanon / The Creative Arab Woman: Opposing the Stereotypical Image and Dismantling the Prevalent Discourse / Does Saudi Feminism Exist? / Arab Feminism -- Obstacles and Possibilities: An Analytical Study of the Women's Movement in the Arab World / The Intellectual Frameworks and Theoretical Limits of Arab Feminist Thought / Feminism's Difference Problem / Feminism as Critique / The Crisis of Feminism in the Context of War, Civil Conflict and Military Intervention -- Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) / Palestinian Feminist Organizations in the Post-Oslo Era: The Binary Nature of Feminist Discourse / Liberation Struggles: Reflections on the Palestinian Women's Movement / Indigenizing Feminist Knowledge: Palestinian Feminist Thought Between the Physics of International Power and the Theology of Racist 'Security' / The Developing Role of Colonial Feminists in Iraq / Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities / Women Struggling Against the Legacy of Colonialism in East Asia / Conflicts and Wars: Women's Silent Discourse / The Role of Feminist Movements in Establishing Peace and Improving the Condition of Women in Areas of Armed Conflict / Terrorizing Masculinities and Ambivalent Responses in Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched / The Child Torn Between War and the Adult World: In the Battlefields by Danielle Arbid / Islamic Feminism: Approaches and Visions -- Sisters in Islam / Accounting for Affect: Kuwaiti Women Between Freedom and Apathy / Islamic Feminism in Egypt: Between Acceptance and Rejection / Islamic Feminism: A New Feminist Movement or a Strategy by Women for Acquiring Rights? / Trends and Directions in Contemporary Islamic Feminist Research / Post-structuralist Theory and Women in the Middle East: Going in Circles? / Two Faces of the Revival of Feminist Qur'anic Exegesis: 'A'isha Abd al-Rahman and Amina Wadud / Rokeya in the World: Feminism and Islam in Twentieth-century Bengal / Feminism in a Global Context -- Tracing Dollars, Mapping Colonial Feminism: America Funds Women's 'Democracy' Training in Iraq / Gender in Modern Counterinsurgency / Reading Between the Lines: Sexual Politics and Publishing in the Age of Public Diplomacy / The Blind Traditional Subject and Suitcase Patriarchies / Black Feminism and the World / Between Feminism and Social Engineering: The Troubled Trajectory of International Gender Activism / Mervat Hatem Hoda Elsadda Najla Hamadeh Nahawand el Kadri Issa Zeina Zaatari Watfa Hamadi Jean Said Makdisi Noha Bayoumi Fawzia Abdullah Abu-Khaled Hatoon Ajwad el-Fassi Suad Zayed al-Oraimi Kaltham al-Ghanim Joan W. Scott Nivedita Menon Islah Jad Eileen Kuttab Amal Amireh Nadera Sbalhoub-Kevorkian Haifa Zangana Elaheh Rostami-Povey Mari Oka Anicée al Amine Merhi Amira Yousef al-Badri Dina Georgis Dalia Said Mustafa Zainah Anwar Mai al-Nakib Hoda El-Saadi Amal Grami Omaima Abou-Bakr Marnia Lazreg Husn Abboud Elora Shehabuddin Shahrzad Mojab Laleh Khalili Vron Ware Kumkum Sangari Hazel Carby Deniz Kandiyoti Part 1 1 Hatem, Mervat 3 -- 2 Elsadda, Hoda 19 -- 3 Hamadeh, Najla 31 -- 4 Issa, Nahawand el Kadri 41 -- 5 Zaatari, Zeina 54 -- 6 Hamadi, Watfa 66 -- 7 Makdisi, Jean Said 78 -- 8 Bayoumi, Noha 90 -- 9 Abu-Khaled, Fawzia Abdullah 108 -- 10 el-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad 121 -- 11 al-Oraimi, Suad Zayed 132 -- 12 al-Ghanim, Kaltham 145 -- 13 Scott, Joan W. 157 -- 14 Menon, Nivedita 164 -- Part 2 15 Jad, Islah 171 -- 16 Kuttab, Eileen 183 -- 17 Amireh, Amal 195 -- 18 Sbalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera 205 -- 19 Zangana, Haifa 217 -- 20 Rostami-Povey, Elaheh 230 -- 21 Oka, Mari 239 -- 22 Merhi, Anicée al Amine 243 -- 23 al-Badri, Amira Yousef 257 -- 24 Georgis, Dina 269 -- 25 Mustafa, Dalia Said 279 -- Part 3 26 Anwar, Zainah 291 -- 27 al-Nakib, Mai 296 -- 28 El-Saadi, Hoda 305 -- 29 Grami, Amal 317 -- 30 Abou-Bakr, Omaima 333 -- 31 Lazreg, Marnia 344 -- 32 Abboud, Husn 355 -- 33 Shehabuddin, Elora 368 -- Part 4 34 Mojab, Shahrzad 379 -- 35 Khalili, Laleh 389 -- 36 Ware, Vron 398 -- 37 Sangari, Kumkum 411 -- 38 Carby, Hazel 416 -- 39 Kandiyoti, Deniz 420.
Translated from the Arabic.
9781780766720 1780766726
2015510968
GBB4A5154 bnb
016647575 Uk
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Feminism--Middle East.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Feminism.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Muslim women--Social conditions.
Women--Social conditions.
Feminismus
Frau
Gleichstellung
Muslimska kvinnor.
Sociala förhållanden.
Feminism.
Feminism--religiösa aspekter.
Kvinnorörelsen.
Mellanöstern.
Middle East.
Naher Osten
Aufsatzsammlung.
HQ1170 / .A72 2014
305.420956