Women In The Middle East

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400845057

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Women in the Middle East by Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women within their individual economic situations, identities, families, and geographies, Women in the Middle East examines the experiences of women in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in Iran, and in all the Arab countries. Keddie discusses the interaction of a changing Islam with political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments. In doing so, she shows that, like other major religions, Islam incorporated ideas and practices of male superiority but also provoked challenges to them. Keddie breaks with notions of Middle Eastern women as faceless victims, and assesses their involvement in the rise of modern nationalist, socialist, and Islamist movements. While acknowledging that conservative trends are strong, she notes that there have been significant improvements in Middle Eastern women's suffrage, education, marital choice, and health.

Author : Suad Joseph,Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003212045

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Women and the Family in the Middle East by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Pdf

An old culture investigated from a new perspective of Feminism in relation to the traditional values of Islam. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Haleh Afshar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349225880

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Women in the Middle East by Haleh Afshar Pdf

This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie,Beth Baron
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Guity Nashat,Judith E. Tucker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253212642

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa by Guity Nashat,Judith E. Tucker Pdf

Describes changes in women's lives from ancient times to the last two centuries, and discusses how an expanding Islam both changed and was influenced by local customs.

Author : Tarnowska Wafa'
Publisher : Crocodile Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1623718708

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Amazing Women of the Middle East by Tarnowska Wafa' Pdf

A superb collection of stories about incredible women from the Middle East Discover Sheherazade, the famous storyteller, dive into the musical world of the beautiful singer Fairuz and meet Amal Clooney, an outstanding international lawyer. Feel inspired by twenty-five amazing women from the Middle East, who have created a legacy through strength of vision, leadership, courage, and determination. Written by award-winning author and trailblazer, Wafa' Tarnowska, this stunning collection of life stories is illustrated by a team of internationally recognized artists. This book is an absolute must-have! This book features: • Scheherazade, Persia, narrator • Nefertiti, Ancient Egypt, 1370 BCE, Queen of Egypt • Queen of Sheba, 1050 BCE, modern-day Ethiopia • Semiramis, ancient Iraq, 811 BCE, Queen of Babylon • Cleopatra VII, Egypt, 69 BCE, last queen of Egypt • Zenobia, Syria, 240 CE, Queen of Palmyra • Theodora, 497 CE, Empress of Byzantium • Rabiya al Adawiyya, Iraq, 714, poet • Shajarat al Durr, Egypt, early 13th Century, Sultana of Egypt • Hurrem Sultan, Ukraine, 1502, Sultana of Ottoman Empire • May Ziadeh, Nazareth, Palestine, 1886, writer • Nazik el Abid, Syria, 1887, activist • Anbara Salam al Khalidi, Lebanon, 1897, activist and feminist • Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanon, 1916, painter • Fairuz, Lebanon, 1933, singer • Zaha Hadid, Iraq, 1950, architect • Anousheh Ansari, Iran/USA, 1966, astronaut • Somayya Jabarti, Saudi Arabia, 1970, editor-in-chief • Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, 1974, film maker and actress • Amal Clooney, Lebanon/British, 1978, lawyer • Manahel Thabet, Yemen, 1981, economist and mathematician • Maha Al Baluchi, Oman, pilot • Nadia Murad, Iraq, 1993, rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner • Zahra Lari, UAE, 1995, ice skater • Azza Fahmy, Egypt, jewellery designer

Author : Ruth Margolies Beitler,Angelica R. Martinez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313362415

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Women's Roles in the Middle East and North Africa by Ruth Margolies Beitler,Angelica R. Martinez Pdf

This concise, content-rich volume provides an overview of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa from the advent of Islam to the present. Recent research shows that women in the Middle East and North Africa have played much larger roles in society than previously acknowledged. Women's Roles in the Middle East and North Africa explores these roles from both historical and contemporary perspectives, describing and analyzing the lives of women in the regions from the advent of Islam through contemporary times. The book begins with an introduction that examines the pre-Islamic Middle East and North Africa. The balance of the chapters are organized thematically and provide detailed country studies for 19 nations. Chapters discuss work, law, religion, family, politics, and culture, exploring the changes women have undergone over a period of roughly 1,500 years.

Author : Lina Abu-Habib
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0855983639

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Gender and Disability by Lina Abu-Habib Pdf

With Gender and Disability, Lina Abu-Habib examines the situation of women with various types of disability in the Middle East context, and describes the evolution of Oxfam's perspective on working with disabled women.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349101573

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Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918 by Billie Melman Pdf

In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and 'different'. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists and Biblical scholars, many of which are studied here for the first time, Billie Melman challenges traditional interpretations of Orientalism, placing gender at the forefront of colonial studies. 'This book provides a real extension to Edward Said's writing not only in the sense of challenging Edward Said's perspective, but also by adding a significant empirical and conceptual element to the discussion on orientalism. Those interested in women's history, in the cultural politics of cross-cultural encounters and in feminist or cultural theory will find much to engage them, inform them and challenge them in Melman's book.' - Joanna De Groot, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Using the perspectives of both gender and class Melman sets an alternative view of the Orient against that of Said... a much less monolithic and much more complex and heterogenous than that of Said' - Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement 'Women's Orients is an important contribution to our understanding of Orientalism. Melman's work is characterized by a fruitful bringing together of the skills of the historian with the sensitive reading of the British women writers...' - Catherine Hall, The Feminist Review 'An excellent work... This book is a must for anyone interested in women's history, both English and Middle Eastern. It is well written and well argued and effectively does what it promises to do' - Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, The International History Review 'Women's Orients, a project of recovery and analysis, is an important consideration of European women traveller's writing on the Middle East. It provides a rich and detailed interpretation of a feminine version of the Orient' - Sherifa Zuhur, MESA Bulletin 'The book raises provocative issues and suggests complexities that deepen our understanding of colonial changes and representations' - Dorothy O.Helly, American Historical Review.

Author : Nahed Eltantawy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317401773

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Women and Media in the Middle East by Nahed Eltantawy Pdf

The traditional image of the Middle Eastern woman, as portrayed by the Western media, has tended to be one of a woman oppressed by men and religion. Veiling intensifies this image of supposed powerlessness and imprisonment. However, the Arab Spring uprisings have introduced the West to women in the Middle East who do not conform to this stereotype, and have shown the Western media that Middle Eastern women cannot be categorized altogether as one oppressed, powerless group. This book investigates the diverse realities and complexities of women in the Middle East in terms of their relationship with media platforms old and new. Contributors offer a range of perspectives that discuss everything from media portrayals of the veil to women in film and television, from women’s involvement as activists on the street to the role played in the Arab Spring by cyber activism. The collection provides insight into how some women in the Middle East are utilizing traditional as well as new media for purposes of self-expression, activism, and democratization, while also investigating media portrayals of women at home and in the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 1588261719

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Modernizing Women by Valentine M. Moghadam Pdf

Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."

Author : Fatma Müge Göçek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415823153

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Women of the Middle East by Fatma Müge Göçek Pdf

Author : Margaret Lee Meriwether
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.