Muslim Women in War and Crisis : : Representation and Reality /

Muslim Women in War and Crisis : : Representation and Reality / / ed. by Faegheh Shirazi.

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Representing diverse cultural viewpoints, Muslim Women in War and Crisis collects an array of original essays that highlight the experiences and perspectives of Muslim women—their dreams and nightmares and their daily struggles—in times of tremendous social upheaval. Analyzing both how Muslim women...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abirafeh, Lina,
Ahmad, Fauzia,
Almirzanah, Syaʿafatun,
Basu, Shamita,
Fuleihan, Nada S.,
Kadhim, Abbas,
Mann, Carol,
Marzouki, Nadia,
Ramírez, Ángeles,
Sacirbey, Omar,
Shabout, Nada,
Shirazi, Faegheh,
Spahić-Šiljak, Zilka,
Stephan, Rita,
Struckman, Sara,
HerausgeberIn:
Shirazi, Faegheh,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (319 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note from the editor: transliteration and key terms
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Central and South Asia
  • Indonesia 1. The Peace Brokers: Women of Aceh and Ambon
  • India 2. Nation and Selfhood: Memoirs of Bengali Muslim Women
  • Afghanistan 3. From Refugee Camp to Kabul: The Influence of Exile on Afghan Women
  • 4. Gendered Aid Interventions and Afghan Women: Images versus Realities
  • Chechnya 5. “Black Widows” in the New York Times: Images of Chechen Women Rebels
  • Part Two: The Middle East and North Africa
  • Iran 6. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women’s Images: Masters of Exploitation
  • Iraq 7. Widows’ Doomsday: Women and War in the Poetry of Hassan al-Nassar
  • 8. Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women
  • Lebanon 9. In Search of Identity: Hijab Recollections from West Beirut
  • 10. Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution
  • Tunisia and Algeria 11. Images of Manipulation: Subversion of Women’s Rights in the Maghreb
  • Part Three: Europe and the United States
  • Former Yugoslavia 12. Images of Women in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Neighboring Countries, 1992–1995
  • Spain 13. Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: The Persistence of Subaltern Images
  • Great Britain 14. The 7/7 London Bombings and British Muslim Women: Media Representations, Mediated Realities
  • United States 15. Images of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 America
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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