Full Description
The Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East provides an overview of the key historical, social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which have shaped the conditions and status of women in the region.
The book is divided into eleven thematic sections, providing a comprehensive guide to understanding the current and historical contexts of women in the Middle East, each giving ground-breaking insights into various aspects of women's movements:
The importance of historical context, including pre-Islamic through post-colonial histories
The importance of politics and the state in understanding women in the ME
Women's roles in political and social movements
The impacts of the formal and informal economies and education on women of the region
Women's spaces and the creation of publics and counterpublics
The effects of war, displacement, and other forms of gendered violence
Women, family, and the state
Discourses and practices of religion
Women and health practices
Bodies and sexualities
Women and sites of cultural production
A unique overview of cutting-edge research in the key arenas of pre-Islamic to post-colonial histories, this Handbook will affect the way future generations of scholars engage with and add to the vast repository of socio-political studies of the Middle East. It will thus be of interest to researchers in gender studies, women's studies, pre-Islamic and post-colonial studies, feminist studies, and socio-political and socio-economic studies.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction Pre-Islamic Through Post-Colonial Histories 1. Women in the Ancient Middle East; 2. Women in Islamic Middle East; 3. Women of the Middle East in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras Politics and the State 4. Women and Citizenship; 5. Women's Political Participation in the Middle East; 6. The Gendering of U.S. Refugee Subjects in the Middle East; 7. Securitized Masculinities: Europe's Muslims and Middle Eastern Diasporas after 9/11; 8. The Body and Revolution in the Middle East Family, Law, and the State 9. Family and the State; 10. Islamic Family Law; 11. Activism, Gender, Transparency, and Family Law: Linking Efforts in Family Law Reform with Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Accountability; 12. Women and Marriage in the Middle East Political and Social Movements 13. Women and Revolution in the Middle East; 14. Political Transformations, Protests, (Counter)revolutions, and Body Politics in the Middle East; 15. Women's Movements in the Middle East: From Feminist Consciousness to Intersectional Feminism and Everything in Between; 16. Women in Middle East Revolutions and States' Gendered Responses Discourses and Practices of Religion 17. The Religious/Secular Binary In Women's Islamic Activism: A Critical Feminist Epistemology; 18. Religious Practices of Muslim Women in the Middle East; 19. Middle Eastern Jewish Women and Religion Economy and Education 20. Women's Economic Empowerment and Development in the Middle East; 21. Women and the Informal Economy; 22. Migrant Domestic Work in the Middle East; 23. Gender and Consumerism in the Middle East; 24. Women and/in Higher Education in the Middle East: Past and Present Counter/Publics 25. Women, Journalism, and Media; 26. The Art of Presence: Middle Eastern Women in the Digital Age; 27. Women's Participation in Public and Street Art; 28. Egypt: The Vanished Representations of Gender and Graffiti After 2011 Sites of Cultural Productions 29. Art as Material Form and Agent: Becoming 'Middle Eastern Women' through Art; 30. Arab Women's Literature from Anonymity to Global Presence; 31. Women and Performance/ Entertaining: Music, Dance, and Cinema; 32. Comics by Middle Eastern Genderqueer and Women Artists Gendering Health Practices 33. Middle East Women's Health in the Context of Patriarchy and Social Change; 34. New Reproductive Technologies; 35. Women's Health and Aging in the Middle East; 36. Women and Mental Health in the Middle East Bodies and Sexualities 37. Masculinity in the Middle East: A Growing Field; 38. Women's Bodies as Sites of Political Struggle: A History of Unfinished Protests; 39. Sex and Politics; 40. Notes on Sartorial Representations of the Middle East; 41. Middle East Queer Affairs: Concepts, Bodies, and Politics; 42. Gender Nonconformity and Transness in the Middle East Gendered Violence 43. Intimate and Domestic Violence in the Middle East; 44. Sexual Violence in Public in the Middle East and North Africa; 45. Gendered Socioeconomic Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Middle East; List of Contributors
