Women and knowledge in the Mediterranean / edited by Fatima Sadiqi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadiqi, Fatima.

Series:

Routledge advances in Mediterranean studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Mediterranean Region--Intellectual life.

Women.

Women--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Intellectual life.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Fourteen chapters, presented by Sadiqi (linguistics and gender studies, Harvard U.), examine the production, use, and molding of knowledge by women of the Mediterranean region across different times and circumstances. Topics discussed include women and knowledge in Italy and Venice during the early modern period, Moroccan women authors of French expression in the age of globalization, textual orality among illiterate Jewish women in Morocco, Berber women's oral knowledge, women's access to legal knowledge in the case of Palestinian women's NGOs in Israel, women and religious knowledge in Islam, women and reproductive knowledge, contextualizing gender representation in Cyprus television, and women bloggers in the Mediterranean. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Fatima Sadiqi

Women and written knowledge

A skeptical cast of mind / Marjorie Lightman

Women and knowledge in Italy and Venice during the early modern period / Paola Malpezzi

Seven francophone Mediterranean women writers speak out inside and outside / Evelyne Accad

Moroccan women authors of French expression : feminine voices of "la littérature-monde" in the age of globalization / Valérie Orlondo

The necessity of having it both ways : tradition, modernity, and experience in the works of Hélé Béji / Mary Barnard

Women and oral knowledge

Textual orality and knowledge of illiterate women : the textual performance of Jewish women in Morocco / Joseph Chetrit

Berber women's oral knowledge / Fatima Sadiqi

Women, legal, religious, and economic knowledge

Morocco's 2004 family code moudawana : improving access to justice for women / Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt

Women's access to legal knowledge : the case of Palestinian women's NGOs in Israel / Liat Kozma

Women and religious knowledge : focus on Muslim women preachers / Moha Ennaji

Women and reproductive knowledge in the Mediterranean / Rachel Newcomb

Women and media knowledge

Contextulaizing the gender representation in Cyprus television / Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou

Gender and political engagement : a role for the media in Malta / Carmen Sammut

Stepping out : women blogging in their discontents / Marlyn Tadros.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415642101

0415642108

9780203078266

0203078268

OCLC:

795172566