Reconstructing Gender In Middle East

Author : Fatma Muge Gocek,Balaghi Shiva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231513917

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Reconstructing Gender in Middle East by Fatma Muge Gocek,Balaghi Shiva Pdf

Employing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on gender relations, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East questions long-standing stereotypes about the traditional subordination of women in the region. With essays on gender construction in Iran, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, this collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of tradition, identity, and power in different parts of the Middle East.Seeking to overcome monolithic Western notions of women's life in "the traditional society," the essays in Part I reexamine the assumption that such societies leave little room for female participation.Part II focuses on the reconstruction of identities by women in Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Occupied Territories. The authors examine the complex variables that contribute to the development of identities—including gender, class, and ethnicity—in various Middle Eastern societies, questioning whether certain identities are more important to women than others. These essays also look at the issue of group identity formation versus the autonomy of the individual.Part III looks at the relationship between gender and power in everyday life in Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco, showing how power relations are constantly contested and renegotiated among family members and members of a community, between nations and between men and women.WIth its collection of enlightened and diverse contemporary perspectives on women in the Middle East, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East is an important work that will have significant impact on the way we look at gender in traditional societies.

Author : Fatma Müge Göçek,Shiva Balaghi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231101228

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Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East by Fatma Müge Göçek,Shiva Balaghi Pdf

Author : Shiva Balaghi
Publisher : Paul H Brookes Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0231101228

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Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East by Shiva Balaghi Pdf

Employing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on gender relations, "Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East" questions long-standing stereotypes about the traditional subordination of women in the region. With essays on gender construction in Iran, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, this collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of tradition, identity, and power in different parts of the Middle East. Seeking to overcome monolithic Western notions of women's life in "the traditional society," the essays in Part I reexamine the assumption that such societies leave little room for female participation. Part II focuses on the reconstruction of identities by women in Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Occupied Territories. The authors examine the complex variables that contribute to the development of identities -- including gender, class, and ethnicity -- in various Middle Eastern societies, questioning whether certain identities are more important to women than others. These essays also look at the issue of group identity formation versus the autonomy of the individual. Part III looks at the relationship between gender and power in everyday life in Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco, showing how power relations are constantly contested and renegotiated among family members and members of a community, between nations and between men and women. WIth its collection of enlightened and diverse contemporary perspectives on women in the Middle East, "Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East" is an important work that will have significant impact on the way we look at gender in traditional societies.

Author : Suad Joseph,Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812206906

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Women and Power in the Middle East by Suad Joseph,Susan Slyomovics Pdf

The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. Together they seek to build a framework for understanding broad patterns of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Challenging questions are addressed throughout. What roles have women played in politics in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements, revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for women in this region and how emerging national states there have dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions that govern their lives. Designed for courses in Middle East, women's, and cultural studies, Women and Power in the Middle East offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world.

Author : Fatma Muge Gocek
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791451976

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Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East by Fatma Muge Gocek Pdf

A comparative analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of nationalism in the Middle East.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie,Beth Baron
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300157468

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Women in Middle Eastern History by Nikki R. Keddie,Beth Baron Pdf

This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology—and not least, women’s attitudes—have expanded or circumscribed women’s roles and behavior through the ages.

Author : Deniz Kandiyoti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032521315

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Gendering the Middle East by Deniz Kandiyoti Pdf

This book is a pioneering attempt to evaluate the extent to which gender analysis has succeeded in both informing and challenging established views of culture, society and literary production in the Middle East.

Author : Moha Ennaji,Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136824326

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Gender and Violence in the Middle East by Moha Ennaji,Fatima Sadiqi Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Islamism, secularism and violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on case studies from across the region, the authors examine the historical, cultural, religious, social, legal and political factors affecting this key issue. Chapters by established scholars from within and outside the region highlight: the interconnections of violence and various sources of power in the Middle East: the state, society, and the family conceptions of violence as family and social practice and dominant discourse the role of violence as pattern for social structuring in the nation state. By centring the chapters around these key areas, the volume provides an innovative theoretical and systematic research model for gender and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Dealing with issues that are not easily accessible in the West, this book underlines the importance of understanding realities and problems relevant to Muslim and Arab societies and discusses possible ways of promoting reforms in the MENA region. As such it will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies, sociology, political science and criminal justice.

Author : Estelle Disch
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Femininity
ISBN : UCSC:32106019046124

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Reconstructing Gender by Estelle Disch Pdf

This anthology on gender focuses on women and men and the multiple identities that comprise the lives of individuals across gender. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including research articles, essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging and provocative readings that represent a plurality of perspectives and experiences. Eleven part introductions briefly identify important issues in the general field of study, describe the readings and identify the central themes. - The text draws from a wide range of sources including research articles, essays and personal narratives. - This latest edition has 25 new articles, eight of which are related to Sept. 11 and the Middle East. - Other new issues include: transgender, people of colour and AIDS, white privilege, women's rights as human rights, more on boys' issues and needs, and the effects of recent attacks on women's well-being via welfare reform and other policies.

Author : Margaret Lee Meriwether
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Carol Malt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815630786

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Women's Voices in Middle East Museums by Carol Malt Pdf

Written with verve and style, this book begins with an historical overview of the museums of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and the West Bank of Palestine and then focuses on the museums of Jordan and the women who work in them. Carol Malt intertwines a history of Islam and a discussion of the emerging public role of women in Muslim society. A museum director herself, the author provides a unique perspective and meaningful insights into the lives and work of twenty-four women who founded, curate, administer, and support Jordan's museums. Their individual and collective contributions to the development of cultural institutions in Jordan are well documented by Malt. Interviews with women in leadership positions capture the difficulties and demands of balancing their profession and maintaining their traditional family lifestyles.

Author : Fatma Müge Göçek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415823137

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Women of the Middle East by Fatma Müge Göçek Pdf

Author : Professor Pinar Ilkkaracan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409491422

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Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East by Professor Pinar Ilkkaracan Pdf

Exploring the contemporary dynamics of sexuality in the Middle East, this volume offers an in-depth and unique insight into this much contested and debated issue. It focuses on the role of sexuality in political and social struggles and the politicization of sexuality and gender in the region. Contributors illustrate the complexity of discourses, debates and issues, focusing in particular on the situation in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine and Turkey, and explain how they cannot be reduced to a single underlying factor such as religion, or a simple binary opposition between the religious right and feminists. Contributors include renowned academicians, researchers, psychologists, historians, human rights and women's rights advocates and political scientists, from different countries and backgrounds, offering a balanced and contemporary perspective on this important issue, as well as highlighting the implication of these debates in larger socio-political contexts.

Author : David Ghanim Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216088905

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Gender and Violence in the Middle East by David Ghanim Ph.D. Pdf

Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends that the inherent violence of gender relations in the Middle East feeds the authoritarianism and political violence that plague public life in the region. In this societal sense, men as well as women may be said to be victims of the structural violence inherent in Middle Eastern gender relations. The author shows that the varieties of physical violence against women for which the Middle East is notorious—honor killings, obligatory beatings, female genital mutilation—are merely eruptions of an ethos of psychological violence and the threat of physical violence that pervades gender relations in the Middle East. Ghanim documents and analyzes the complementary roles of both sexes in sustaining the system of violence and oppressive control that regulates gender relations in Middle Eastern societies. He reveals that women are not only victims of violence but welcome the opportunity to become perpetrators of violence in the married female life cycle of subordination followed by domination. The mother-in-law plays a crucial role in supporting the structure of patriarchal control by stoking tensions with her daughter-in-law and provoking her son to commit sanctioned violence on his wife. The author applies his deep analysis of gender and violence in the Middle East to illuminate the motivational profiles of male and female political suicidalists from the Middle East and the martyrological adulation that they are accorded in Middle Eastern societies.

Author : Professor Maha El Said,Lena Meari,Doctor Nicola Pratt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783602841

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Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance by Professor Maha El Said,Lena Meari,Doctor Nicola Pratt Pdf

Ever since the uprisings that swept the Arab world, the role of Arab women in political transformations received unprecedented media attention. The copious commentary, however, has yet to result in any serious study of the gender dynamics of political upheaval. Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance is the first book to analyse the interplay between moments of sociopolitical transformation, emerging subjectivities and the different modes of women's agency in forging new gender norms in the Arab world. Written by scholars and activists from the countries affected, including Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, this is an important addition to Middle Eastern gender studies.