Gender Textile Work And Tunisian Women S Liberation

Author : Claire Oueslati-Porter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030241049

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Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation by Claire Oueslati-Porter Pdf

In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research in Binzart, Tunisia's sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city. She blends conventional ethnography with auto-ethnography, leading readers inside a textile factory, among the women and men workers who navigate intensely gendered labor. While there is pressure to adhere to gendered codes of behavior in the factory, some women engage in subversive gender performances. Oueslati-Porter elucidates a phenomenon that is oft-neglected in studies of women in the Middle East and North Africa: gender-queerness. Further, Oueslati-Porter explores her own perceptions of being a researcher while also being a daughter-in-law in a Tunisian family, and a mother to a toddler-aged son while conducting field work. This ethnography centralizes women's waged and unwaged labor in the understanding of women’s rights Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation will be of interest to students andscholars of anthropology, sociology, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ studies,and Middle East and North Africa studies.

Author : Claire Oueslati-Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 3030241068

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Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women's Liberation by Claire Oueslati-Porter Pdf

This book presents ethnographic research conducted in an export zone textile factory in Binzart, Tunisia during the years leading up to the Arab Spring. The author focuses on the sexist management tactics in the factory, as well as women workers' patterns of resistance and capitulation to sexual objectification and exploitation. Masculinity as enacted by men and by some women is revealed as fundamental to the processes of production. Certain women workers, Oueslati-Porter shows, challenge cisgender norms by appropriating masculinity for themselves, threatening men's masculine supremacy. Furthermore, socio-cultural surveillance mechanisms in the factory and in the family is curtail the tensions posed by the presence of masculine women. Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women's Liberation will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and Middle East and North Africa studies. Claire Oueslati-Porter is Senior Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, University of Miami, USA.

Author : Amy Aisen Kallander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108845045

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Tunisia's Modern Woman by Amy Aisen Kallander Pdf

Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, highlighting the centrality of women to post-colonial state-building.

Author : Jane D Tchaïcha,Khedija Arfaoui
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351711821

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The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement by Jane D Tchaïcha,Khedija Arfaoui Pdf

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women’s rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change. This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of Tunisian women’s public and civic engagement distinguishes between different types of women’s objectives in order to examine women’s activism holistically as it evolved in the local context. The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of Tunisia, North African, and Middle East Studies and gender in the Arab world.

Author : Samuel Cohn,Rae Lesser Blumberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544381183

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Gender and Development by Samuel Cohn,Rae Lesser Blumberg Pdf

Drawing from the leading scholarship in the field, Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Women's Power helps you to develop a foundational understanding of the significant role that gender plays in developing societies. Award-winning scholars Samuel Cohn and Rae Lesser Blumberg have carefully selected and edited a collection of readings that encourage you to think critically about the economic power (or lack thereof) of women, and apply key concepts and theory related to gender and current development issues. From women’s participation in labor markets to their financial autonomy and purchasing power, these readings enable you to explore the economic implications of female power and the importance of women’s strategic indispensability.

Author : Alcinda Honwana
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780324630

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Youth and Revolution in Tunisia by Alcinda Honwana Pdf

The uprising in Tunisia has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the twenty-first century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring. In this remarkable work, Alcinda Honwana goes beyond superficial accounts of what occurred to explore the defining role of the country's youth, and in particular the cyber activist. Drawing on fresh testimony from those who shaped events, the book describes in detail the experiences of young activists through the 29 days of the revolution and the challenges they encountered after the fall of the regime and the dismantling of the ruling party. Now, as old and newly established political forces are moving into the political void created by Ben Ali's departure, tensions between the older and younger generations are sharpening. An essential account of an event that has inspired the world, and its potential repercussions for the Middle East, Africa and beyond.

Author : Jane D. Tchaicha,Khedija Arfaoui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367887231

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The Tunisian Women's Rights Movement by Jane D. Tchaicha,Khedija Arfaoui Pdf

Author : Margaret Lee Meriwether
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429971150

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A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East by Margaret Lee Meriwether Pdf

Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. The book is organized along thematic lines that reflect major focuses of research in this area—gender and work, gender and the state, gender and law, gender and religion, and feminist movements—and each chapter is written by a scholar who has done original research on the topic.

Author : Rachel Alpert
Publisher : Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015069304486

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Women in Morocco by Rachel Alpert Pdf

The evolving status of women in Moroccan society has drawn much attention in recent years, particularly in the legal realm. Less noticed, but no less crucial, has been the accelerated entrance of Moroccan women into the workforce in recent decades. The myriad reasons for, and implications of this phenomenon are addressed by this study. By drawing upon, and synthesizing for the first time a wide range of anthropological, sociological, historical and economic sources and data, this study fills an important lacuna in the literature.

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015078349092

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Author : Marnia Lazreg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1138631450

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Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-liberation by Marnia Lazreg Pdf

This important study examines the cultural turn for women in the Middle East and North Africa, analyzing the ways they have adjusted to and at times defended, socially conservative redefinitions of their roles in society in matters of marriage, work, and public codes of behavior. Whether this cultural turn is an autochthonous response, or an alternative to Western feminism, Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-Liberation: The Cultural Turn in Algeria examines the sources, evolution, contradictions as well as consequences of the Cultural Turn. Focusing on Algeria, but making comparisons with Tunisia and Morocco, it takes an in-depth look at Islamic feminism and studies its functions in the geopolitics of control of Islam. It also explores the knowldge effects of the cultural turn and crucially identifies a critical way of re-orienting feminist thought and practice in the region. This new work from a highly regarded scholar will appeal to researchers, graduates, and undergraduates in North African studies; Middle Eastern studies; sociology, women and gender studies; anthropology; political science; and ethnic and critical race studies.

Author : Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442203976

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Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa by Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin Pdf

Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.

Author : Terri Ginsberg,Chris Lippard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538139059

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Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema by Terri Ginsberg,Chris Lippard Pdf

To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state of Israel. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. It also covers the range of cinematic modes from documentary to fiction, representational to animation, generic to experimental, mainstream to avant-garde, and entertainment to propaganda. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Middle Eastern cinema.

Author : Eric H. Boehm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015073568688

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Historical Abstracts by Eric H. Boehm Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015078362954

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Africa Quarterly by Anonim Pdf