Arab Regional Women' s studies workshop
Title | Arab Regional Women' s studies workshop PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Nelson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Presents the lively proceedings of the 1998 workshop on Arab regional women's studies held at the American University in Cairo. Includes the text of several introductory speeches followed by pieces on comparative approaches to gender and women's studies and research and policy issues. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region
Title | The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region PDF eBook |
Author | Suad Joseph |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2022-07-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0755645243 |
Critical analysis of what we know - and do not know – about women in the Arab region is needed to support social change. But how is knowledge on women and gender produced in the region? How does this change when it is undertaken by Arab women researchers? Through a critical examination of local fieldwork experiences, the contributors of the volume - who are Arab women researchers themselves - answer these questions. The book examines the specific structural conditions that shape people's lives in the Arab region, from the effects of imperialism, settler colonialism and the neo-liberalization of economies, to racial capitalism, securitization, and embedded patriarchal ideologies and structures. The authors assess the implications of these different dynamics on undertaking research and also examine their own daily lives, the lives of their interlocutors, and the practices of their field. In doing so, they are able to escape hegemonic approaches and frameworks to the study of gender and to instead theorize from the local context to produce knowledge as they see it. This 'engaged gender research' challenges dominant discourses in academia, rejects the presumptions of 'Arab exceptionalism', and challenges liberal feminisms. It devises a new way of undertaking research on gender in the region to lay the foundation for a more just tomorrow. Covering Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and the Arab Gulf, the book argues that an engaged gender research - which is feminist and critically analyses the historical, political, economic and social contexts of the research topic first - will transform how we understand women and gender, and the Arab World.
Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World
Title | Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World PDF eBook |
Author | Beirut University College. Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 1977* |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Hagar
Title | Hagar PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 742 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Arab-Israeli conflict |
ISBN |
تجربة الاحتجاج
Title | تجربة الاحتجاج PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Timothy Rowe |
Publisher | American Univ in Cairo Press |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789774163623 |
In the autumn of 2005, a group of young male Sudanese refugees organized a protest against the policies of the UNHCR in Cairo. Using the protest as a vehicle for exploring the difficulties encountered by young Sudanese men, and their motivations for initiating or joining the protest, this study examines the ways in which pursuit of personal and collective agency intersect with ideals of masculine respectability and attainment. Cairo Papers in Social Science 29:4
Women Under Islam
Title | Women Under Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Jones-Pauly |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2011-04-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857720139 |
How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of different interpretations and practices. To move the debate on Islamic law and gender forward, it is necessary to establish how Islamic law actually operates. This groundbreaking work explores what conditions sustain the most liberal interpretation of Islamic law on gender issues. It examines the different interpretations, histories and practices of Islamic law in different countries. It finds that the political independence of judicial institutions is a far more important factor than the relative conservativism of the society. This wide-ranging book will provide new insights not only for those studying law and gender, but for anyone with an interest in Islamic societies.
Women of the Midan
Title | Women of the Midan PDF eBook |
Author | Sherine Hafez |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2019-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253040647 |
In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures that repressed and disciplined them. Women's resistance to state control, Islamism, neoliberal market changes, the military establishment, and patriarchal systems forged new paths of dissent and transformation. Through firsthand accounts of women who participated in the revolution, Hafez illustrates how the gendered body signifies collective action and the revolutionary narrative. Using the concept of rememory, Hafez shows how the body is inseparably linked to the trauma of the revolutionary struggle. While delving into the complex weave of public space, government control, masculinity, and religious and cultural norms, Hafez sheds light on women's relationship to the state in the Arab world today and how the state, in turn, shapes individuals and marks gendered bodies.