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Modernizing women [on order] : gender and social change in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam.;<B><BR>[on order] :</B>
Valentine M. Moghadam 1952-
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שפה נוכחית
Arab feminisms
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| Title |
Arab feminisms : gender and equality in the Middle East / edited by Jean Said Makdisi, Noha Bayoumi and Rafif Rida Sidawi. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Makdisi, Jean Said (editor) Bayyūmī, Nuhá (editor) Ṣaydāwī, Rafīf Riḍā (editor) Khoury, Ellen (translator) Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥdah al-ʻArabīyah (Beirut, Lebanon) (issuing body) |
| Publisher |
London : I.B. Tauris In association with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Lebanese Association of Women Researchers |
| Creation Date |
2014 |
| Notes |
"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,' held at the American University of Beirut, 4-7 October 2009"--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Content |
What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions of Arab Feminisms / Mervat Hatem -- Gender Studies in the Arab World: Reflections and Questions on the Challenges of Discourses, Locations, and History / Hoda Elsadda -- Recognition of Difference: Towards a More Effective Feminism / Najla Hamadeh -- Research Methods and Probing Feminist Thought / Nahawand el Kadri Issa -- From Women's Rights to Feminism: The Urgent Need for an Arab Feminist Renaissance / Zeina Zaatari -- Feminist Discourse in the Arab Theatre / Watfa Hamadi -- Huqouq almar'a: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women's Movement / Jean Said Makdisi -- Femininity and Feminist Studies: Research, the Researcher and Cultural Constrictions in Lebanon / Noha Bayoumi -- The Creative Arab Woman: Opposing the Stereotypical Image and Dismantaling the Prevalent Discourse / Fawzia Abdullah Abu-Khaled -- Does Saudi Feminism Exist? / Hatoon Ajwad el-Fassi. Arab Feminism - Obstacles and Possibilities: An Analytical Study of the Women's Movement in the Arab World / Suad Zayed al-Oraimi -- The Intellectual Frameworks and Theoretical Limits of Arab Feminist Thought / Kaltham al-Ghanim -- Feminism's Difference Problem / Joan W. Scott -- Feminism as Critique / Nivedita Menon -- Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) / Islah Jad -- Palestinian Feminist Organizations in the Post-Oslo Era: The Binary Nature of Feminist Discourse / Eileen Kuttab -- Liberation Struggles: Reflections on the Palestinian Women's Movement / Amal Amireh -- Indigenizing Feminist Knowledge: Palestinian Feminist Thought Between the Physics of International Power and the Theology of Racist 'Security' / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- The Developing Role of Colonial Feminists in Iraq / Haifu Zangana -- Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities / Elaheh Rostami-Povery. Women Struggling Against the Legacy of Colonialism in East Asia / Mari Oka -- Conflicts and Wars: Women's Silent Discourse / Anicee al Amine Merhi -- The Role of Feminist Movements in Establishing Peace and Improving the Condition of Women in Areas of Armed Conflict / Amira Yousef al-Badri -- Terrorizing Masculinites and Ambivalent Responses in Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched / Dina Georgis -- The Child Torn Between War and the Adult World: In the Battlefieds by Danielle Arbid / Dalia Said Mustafa -- Sisters in Islam / Zainah Anwar -- Accounting for Affect: Kuwaiti Women Between Freedom and Apathy / Mai al-Nakib -- Islamic Feminism in Egypt: Between Acceptance and Rejection / Hoda El-Saadi -- Islamic Feminism: A New Feminist Movement or a Strategy by Women for Acquiring Rights? / Amal Grami -- Trends and Directions in Contemporary Islamic Feminist Research / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- Post-structuralist Theory and Women in the Middle East: Going in Circles? / Marnia Lazreg. Two Faces of the Revival of Feminist Qur'anic Exegisis: 'A'isha Abd al-Rahman and Amina Wadud / Husn Abboud -- Rokeya in the World: Feminism and Islam in Twentieth-century Bengal / Elora Shehadubbin -- Tracing Dollars and Mapping Colonial Feminism: America Funds Women's 'Democracy' Training in Iraq / Shahrzad Mojab -- Gender in Modern Conterinsurgency / Laleh Khalili -- Reading Between teh Lines: Sexual Politics and Publishing in the Age of Public Diplomacy / Vron Ware -- The Blind Traditional Subject and Suitcase Patriarchies / Kumkum Sangari -- Black Feminism in the World / Hazel Carby -- Between Feminism and Social Engineering: The Troubled Trajectory of International Gender Activism / Deniz Kandiyoti. |
| Series |
Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences Vol 7 |
| Extent |
xxxvi, 440 pages 24 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990037153230205171 |
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