Routledge handbook on women in the Middle East / Suad Joseph and Zeina Zaatari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Suad, author.

Zaatari, Zeina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Middle East--History.

Women.

Women--Middle East--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (741 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2022]

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Women in the Middle East provides an overview of the key historical, social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which have shaped the conditions and status of women in the region. The book is divided into eleven thematic sections, providing a comprehensive guide to understanding the current and historical contexts of women in the Middle East, each giving ground-breaking insights into various aspects of women's movements: The importance of historical context including pre-Islamic through post-colonial histories, The importance of politics and the state in understanding women in the Middle East, Women's roles in political and social movements, The impacts of the formal and informal economies and education on women of the region, Women's spaces and the creation of publics and counter publics, The effects of war, displacement, and other forms of gendered violence, Women, family, and the state, Discourses and practices of religion, Women and Health, Practices Bodies and sexualities, Women and sites of cultural productions, A unique overview of cutting-edge research in the key arenas of pre-Islamic to post-colonial histories, this handbook will pivot the way future generations of scholars engage with and add to the vast repository of socio-political studies of the Middle East. It will thus be of interest to researchers in gender studies, women's studies, pre-Islamic and post-Colonial studies, feminist studies, and socio-political & socio-economic studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Handbook on Women in the Middle East

PART I Pre-Islamic Through Post-Colonial Histories

1 Women in the Ancient Middle East

2 Women in the Islamic Middle East

3 Women of the Middle East in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras

PART II Politics and the State

4 Women and Citizenship

5 Women's Political Participation in the Middle East

6 The Gendering of US Refugee Subjects in the Middle East

7 Securitized Masculinities: Europe's Muslims and Middle Eastern Diasporas After 9/11

8 The Body and Revolution in the Middle East

PART III Family, Law, and the State

9 Family and the State

10 Islamic Family Law

11 Activism, Gender, Transparency, and Family Law: Linking Efforts in Family Law Reform With Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Accountability

12 Women and Marriage in the Middle East

PART IV Political and Social Movements

13 Women and Revolution in the Middle East

14 Political Transformations, Protests, (Counter)Revolutions, and Body Politics in the Middle East

15 Women's Movements in the Middle East: From Feminist Consciousness to Intersectional Feminism and Everything In Between

16 Women in Middle East Revolutions and States' Gendered Responses

PART V Discourses and Practices of Religion

17 The Religious/Secular Binary in Women's Islamic Activism: A Critical Feminist Epistemology

18 Religious Practices of Muslim Women in the Middle East

19 Middle Eastern Jewish Women and Religion

PART VI Economy and Education

20 Women's Economic Empowerment and Development in the Middle East

21 Women and the Informal Economy

22 Migrant Domestic Work in the Middle East

23 Gender and Consumerism in the Middle East.

24 Women and/in Higher Education in the Middle East: Past and Present

PART VII Counter/Publics

25 Women, Journalism, and Media

26 The Art of Presence: Middle Eastern Women in the Digital Age

27 Women's Participation in Public and Street Art

28 Egypt: The Vanished Representations of Gender and Graffiti After 2011

PART VIII Sites of Cultural Production

29 Art as Material Form and Agent: Becoming "Middle Eastern Women" Through Art

30 Arab Women's Literature From Anonymity to Global Presence

31 Women and Performance/Entertaining: Music, Dance, and Cinema

32 Comics by Middle Eastern Genderqueer and Women Artists

PART IX Gendering Health Practices

33 Middle East Women's Health in the Context of Patriarchy and Social Change

34 New Reproductive Technologies

35 Women's Health and Aging in the Middle East

36 Women and Mental Health in the Middle East

PART X Bodies and Sexualities

37 Masculinity in the Middle East: A Growing Field

38 Women's Bodies as Sites of Political Struggle: A History of Unfinished Protests

39 Sex and Politics

40 Notes on Sartorial Representations of the Middle East

41 Middle East Queer Affairs: Concepts, Bodies, and Politics

42 Gender Nonconformity and Transness in the Middle East

PART XI Gendered Violence

43 Intimate and Domestic Violence in the Middle East

44 Sexual Violence in Public in the Middle East and North Africa

45 Gendered Socioeconomic Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Middle East

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-67643-1

1-315-16521-X

1-351-67644-X

9781315165219

OCLC:

1334726398