Women and Power in the Middle East

Name: Women and Power in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780812217490

ISBN-10: 0812217497

ISBN-13: 9780812217490

Edition: 2001

Authors: Suad Joseph, Susan Slyomovics

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics



Overviews


Women's Activism in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective



Women and Politics in the Middle East



Women and Work in the Arab World



The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship




Country Case Studies, West to East


State and Gender in the Maghrib



Sex, Lies, and Television: Algerian and Moroccan Caricatures of the Gulf War



An Interview with Heba Ra'uf Ezzat



Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives



Sudanese Women and the Islamist State



For the Common Good? Gender and Social Citizenship in Palestine



Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back?



Searching for Strategies: The Palestinian Women's Movement in the New Era



Gender and Citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish Experience



Women in Saudi Arabia: Between Breadwinner and Domestic Icon?



Women's Organizations in Kuwait



The Dialectics of Fashion: Gender and Politics in Yemen



The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran



Notes


Comprehensive Bibliography


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgments