Women and Power in the Middle East / / ed. by Susan Slyomovics, Suad Joseph.

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• MitwirkendeR: Abu-Lughod, Lila,; Arat, Yeşim,; Carapico, Sheila,; Charrad, Mounira M.,; Doumato, Eleanor Abdella,; El-Gawhary, Karim,; Giacaman, Rita,; Graham-Brown, Sarah,; Gruenbaum, Ellen,; Hijab, Nadia,; Jad, Islah,; Johnson, Penny,; Joseph, Suad,; Kandiyoti, Deniz,; Moghadam, Fatemeh Etemad,; Peteet, Julie,; Slyomovics, Susan,; al-Mughni, Haya,
• HerausgeberIn: Joseph, Suad,; Slyomovics, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 22 illus.

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,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Overviews
• Women's Activism in the Middle East
• Women and Politics in the Middle East
• Women and Work in the Arab World
• The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship
• II. Country Case Studies, West to East
• State and Gender in the Maghrib
• Sex, Lies, and Television
• 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?
• Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back?
• Searching for Strategies
• Gender and Citizenship
• Women in Saudi Arabia
• Women's Organizations in Kuwait
• The Dialectics of Fashion
• The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments