Women And Knowledge In The Mediterranean

Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135136734

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Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean by Fatima Sadiqi Pdf

Women in the Mediterranean have helped constitute new meanings of knowledge whilst simultaneously providing a wealth of material that is now part of the knowledge archive of the area. The inception of types of knowledge that differ from the conventional necessitates a re-definition of the concept of ‘knowledge,’ an issue which is addressed in this volume. Employing a range of theories and methodologies, this book explores four main domains in which women’s knowledge is attested: women and written knowledge; women and oral knowledge; women and legal, religious, and economic knowledge; and women and media knowledge. By presenting untapped women’s expressions of knowledge in these domains, this book opens new avenues of research in fields such as sociology, history and literature, amongst others. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Middle East, Women and Gender studies and Mediterranean Studies.

Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135136741

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Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean by Fatima Sadiqi Pdf

Women in the Mediterranean have helped constitute new meanings of knowledge whilst simultaneously providing a wealth of material that is now part of the knowledge archive of the area. The inception of types of knowledge that differ from the conventional necessitates a re-definition of the concept of ‘knowledge,’ an issue which is addressed in this volume. Employing a range of theories and methodologies, this book explores four main domains in which women’s knowledge is attested: women and written knowledge; women and oral knowledge; women and legal, religious, and economic knowledge; and women and media knowledge. By presenting untapped women’s expressions of knowledge in these domains, this book opens new avenues of research in fields such as sociology, history and literature, amongst others. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Middle East, Women and Gender studies and Mediterranean Studies.

Author : Leila Simona Talani,Serena Giusti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351062848

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Women in the Mediterranean by Leila Simona Talani,Serena Giusti Pdf

The book addresses the challenges faced by women on the two shores of the Mediterranean from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. While in the European Union’s (EU) Mediterranean countries inequality is mostly linked to the social sphere and, in particular refers to labour market dynamics, in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) area, the situation is more complicated as the social and private spheres are blended and cultural and religious factors have a great impact on women autonomy and opportunities beyond the family perimeter. The different challenges women are facing on the two sides of the Mediterranean have sometimes originated incomprehension and misperceptions. Western-supported policies devoted to fill the gap between men and women in the MENA area have overlooked countries’ peculiarities simply exporting models tailored for EU’s member states. The EU’s attempts to strengthen relations with the Mediterranean countries on a multilevel basis have not rescued women from marginalisation. Nevertheless, during the 2011 awakening, women played an important role in activating civil society. They are still considered as a key part of the fight against terrorism and radicalisation, although in some countries their condition has worsened after secular regimes have been downturned. The number of migrant women has increased and, not differently from men, they are looking for opportunities and better conditions of life while Western media tend to present them in a stereotyped way either as traumatized victim and/or as caring mother. There are other misleading common places, which need to be better conceptualised and understood, such as the alleged incompatibility between Islam and women rights. Unfortunately, women’s rights are still under attack even in European countries where they are considered consolidated. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of the Balkans and Near Eastern Studies.

Author : Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134780594

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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean by Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio Pdf

Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world as well as scholarship on religious and social history. The contributors face a famously difficult task: ancient authors rarely recorded aspects of women’s lives, including their songs, prophecies, and prayers. Many of the objects women made and used in ritual were perishable and have not survived; certain kinds of ritual objects (lowly undecorated pots, for example) tend not even to be recorded in archaeological reports. However, the broad range of contributions in this volume demonstrates the multiplicity of materials that can be used as evidence – including inscriptions, textiles, ceramics, figurative art, and written sources – and the range of methodologies that can be used, from analysis of texts, images, and material evidence to cognitive and comparative approaches.

Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : 0415995868

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Gender, Property, and Law in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Communities in the Wider Mediterranean 1300-1800 by Jutta Gisela Sperling Pdf

Author : Bella Vivante
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275982492

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Daughters of Gaia by Bella Vivante Pdf

From their personal lives at home to their roles in the realms of religion, health, economics, governance, war, philosophy, and poetry, this is the story of ancient women in all their aspects. Vivante explores women's lives in four ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. While the experiences of women in ancient cultures were certainly very different from those of most women today, a tendency to focus too much on negative or restrictive images has until now provided readers with a rather incomplete picture. Looking at this important era from a female-oriented perspective, Vivante widens the perceptual lens and makes it possible to highlight the fundamental empowered aspects of women's activities in order to present them in balance with the various limits imposed on their societal participation. Beginning with powerful images of goddesses and women's roles in the religious sphere, Vivante details the foundation for women's activities in all other social realms. While these four Mediterranean civilizations were distinctive, they also influenced each other through various forms of contact—trade, colonization, and war. Both the similarities and the differences permit richer comparisons and promote a deeper understanding of the lives of women in each.

Author : P. Faugeras,A. Hoummada,R. Klapisch
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607502104

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Sharing Knowledge Across the Mediterranean Area by P. Faugeras,A. Hoummada,R. Klapisch Pdf

Learning what the most common errors are in creating or reading engineering drawings-and then learning how to avoid them altogether-has untold benefits for all engineers, technicians and draftsmen, be they mechanical engineers, product designers, manufact

Author : Patricia Lorcin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317394266

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The Southern Shores of the Mediterranean and its Networks by Patricia Lorcin Pdf

The majority of scholarly conceptions of the Mediterranean focus on the sea’s northern shores, with its historical epicentres of Spain, France or Italy. This book seeks to demonstrate the importance of economic, political and cultural networks emanating from the Mediterranean’s lesser-studied southern shores. The various chapters emphasize the activities that made connections between the southern shores, sub-Saharan Africa, the lands along its northern shores, and beyond to the United States. In doing so, the book avoids a Eurocentric approach and details the importance of the players and regions of the southern hinterland, in the analysis of the Mediterranean space. The cultural aspects of the North African countries, be they music, literature, film, commerce or political activism, continue to transform the public spheres of the countries along the northern shores of the Mediterranean, and beyond to the whole of the European continent. In its focus on the often overlooked North African shore, the work is an innovative contribution to the historiography of the Mediterranean region. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Author : Bernadette P. Marriott,Diane F. Birt,Virginia A. Stallings,Allison A. Yates
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128184615

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Present Knowledge in Nutrition by Bernadette P. Marriott,Diane F. Birt,Virginia A. Stallings,Allison A. Yates Pdf

Present Knowledge in Nutrition, Eleventh Edition, provides an accessible, highly readable, referenced, source of the most current, reliable, and comprehensive information in the broad field of nutrition. Now broken into two, separate volumes, and updated to reflect scientific advancements since the publication of its tenth edition, Present Knowledge in Nutrition, Eleventh Edition includes expanded coverage on the topics of basic nutrition and metabolism and clinical and applied topics in nutrition. This volume, Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Clinical and Applied Topics in Nutrition, addresses life stage nutrition and maintaining health, nutrition monitoring, measurement, and regulation, and important topics in clinical nutrition. Authored by an international group of subject-matter experts, with the guidance of four editors with complementary areas of expertise, Present Knowledge in Nutrition, Eleventh Edition will continue to be a go-to resource for advanced undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students in nutrition, public health, medicine, and related fields; professionals in academia and medicine, including clinicians, dietitians, physicians, and other health professionals; and academic, industrial and government researchers, including those in nutrition and public health. The book was produced in cooperation with the International Life Sciences Institute (https://ilsi.org/). Provides an accessible source of the most current, reliable and comprehensive information in the broad field of nutrition Features new chapters on topics of emerging importance, including the microbiome, eating disorders, nutrition in extreme environments, and the role of nutrition and cognition in mental status Covers topics of clinical relevance, including the role of nutrition in cancer support, ICU nutrition, supporting patients with burns, and wasting, deconditioning and hypermetabolic conditions

Author : Patricia L Howard
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39076002335920

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Women and Plants by Patricia L Howard Pdf

These in-depth case studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America provide a state of the art overview of the gender dimensions of people-plant relations. The contributors reveal, among other things, the crucial role of women in plantbiodiversity management.

Author : Ruspini, Elisabetta,Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447336365

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Women and religion by Ruspini, Elisabetta,Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe Pdf

This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women’s changes to religion in different parts of the world and among different religious traditions and practices. The contributors address a diverse range of themes and issues including the attitudes of different religions to gender equality; how women construct their identity through religious activity; whether women have opportunity to influence religious doctrine; and the impact of migration on the religious lives of both women and men.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052304394

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Gender and Access to Land by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This guide has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.

Author : Ulla Tervahauta,Ivan Miroshnikov,Outi Lehtipuu,Ismo Dunderberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004344938

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Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity by Ulla Tervahauta,Ivan Miroshnikov,Outi Lehtipuu,Ismo Dunderberg Pdf

Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature.

Author : Eric R Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421403489

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Renegade Women by Eric R Dursteler Pdf

This book uses the stories of early modern women in the Mediterranean who left their birthplaces, families, and religions to reveal the complex space women of the period occupied socially and politically. In the narrow sense, the word “renegade” as used in the early modern Mediterranean referred to a Christian who had abandoned his or her religion to become a Muslim. With Renegade Women, Eric R Dursteler deftly redefines and broadens the term to include anyone who crossed the era’s and region’s religious, political, social, and gender boundaries. Drawing on archival research, he relates three tales of women whose lives afford great insight into both the specific experiences and condition of females in, and the broader cultural and societal practices and mores of, the early Mediterranean. Through Beatrice Michiel of Venice, who fled an overbearing husband to join her renegade brother in Constantinople and took the name Fatima Hatun, Dursteler discusses how women could convert and relocate in order to raise their personal and familial status. In the parallel tales of the Christian Elena Civalelli and the Muslim Mihale Šatorovic, who both entered a Venetian convent to avoid unwanted, arranged marriages, he finds courageous young women who used the frontier between Ottoman and Venetian states to exercise a surprising degree of agency over their lives. And in the actions of four Muslim women of the Greek island of Milos—Aissè, her sisters Eminè and Catigè, and their mother, Maria—who together left their home for Corfu and converted from Islam to Christianity to escape Aissè’s emotionally and financially neglectful husband, Dursteler unveils how a woman’s attempt to control her own life ignited an international firestorm that threatened Venetian-Ottoman relations. A truly fascinating narrative of female instrumentality, Renegade Women illuminates the nexus of identity and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean through global and local lenses. Scholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read.

Author : Maria Palaska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527564770

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Mistress, Mother, Muse by Maria Palaska Pdf

Mistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in that it lays the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. The book is an exploration of aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures, namely Spanish, Greek and Arabic. It adopts myth as an approach to literary analysis, and, thus, introduces a new, ground-breaking method of analysis in literary studies. Mistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature represents a useful reference to students, scholars and academics in the fields of comparative literature, modern Greek literature, Spanish literature, Arabic literature, myth studies, classical Greek literature, and women’s studies.