Arab Women's Lives Retold

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Examining late twentieth-century autobiographical writing by Arab women novelists, poets, and artists, this essay collection explores the ways in whic... Lees meer

War's Other Voices

Miriam Cooke

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fictio... Lees meer

Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period

Elizabeth Brownson

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Her ex... Lees meer

The Hammam Through Time and Space

Julie Peteet

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred stru... Lees meer

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in a... Lees meer

Voices from Iran

Mahnaz Kousha

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Mahnaz Kousha interviewed fifteen Iranian women in Tehran who originally came from cities and towns throughout Iran. The youngest was 38, the eldest i... Lees meer

Unveiling Men

Wendy Desouza

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• For years, Iranian academics, writers, and scholars have equated national development and progress with the reform of men's sexual behavior. Modern in... Lees meer

Contesting Realities

Susanne Dahlgren

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Aden, the former capital of the only Marxist republic in the Arab world, has returned to the headlines as the scene of a popular uprising against the ... Lees meer

Representing the Unpresentable

Negar Mottahedah

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• In this pioneering book, Negar Mottahedeh explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. She focuses on historical and liter... Lees meer

Sumud

Livia Wick

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to the issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although muc... Lees meer

Unveiling Men

Wendy Desouza

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• For years, Iranian academics, writers, and scholars have equated national development and progress with the reform of men's sexual behavior. Modern in... Lees meer

Mihrî Hatun

Didem Havlioglu

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• The early modern Ottoman poet Mihrî Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women w... Lees meer

Istanbul Appearances

Claudia Liebelt

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• In the twenty-first century, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasing... Lees meer

Beyond the Exotic

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Mu... Lees meer

The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale

Nesta Ramazani

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• This is an extraordinary autobiography of a young girl growing up in Iran. The daughter of an English Christian mother and an Iranian Zoroastrian fath... Lees meer

Pioneers or Pawns?

Marina De Regt

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Marina de Regt provides an invaluable analysis of gender, health care training, and globalization, demonstrating women's positive impact on the comple... Lees meer

Arab and Arab American Feminisms

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender,... Lees meer

Quest for Love in Central Morocco

Laura Menin

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Morocca... Lees meer

Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967

Samira Aghacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• This book offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a sp... Lees meer

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan

Frances S Hasso

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• This book focuses on the central party apparatus of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Democratic Front (DF) branches es... Lees meer

The Funambulists

Lisa Marchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• The Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and region... Lees meer

Muslim Women and Politics of Participation

Mahnaz Afkhami

• Paperback | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• This volume is about the ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising conciousness and changing codes of l... Lees meer

Arab Family Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation amo... Lees meer

Words, Not Swords

Farzaneh Milani

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• A woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that ... Lees meer