Women and Power in the Middle East Edited by Suad Joseph and Susan
Slyomovics "An excellent summary of the best recent innovative
scholarship on gender in the Middle East."--NWSA "Journal"
"Challenges many current theories about women's political
participation in the Middle East and North Africa, and how the
countries of the MENA region have dealt with women striving to make
their voices heard."--"Middle East Journal" 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 roles have women played in politics
in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and
which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization
differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements,
revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to
women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In
investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the
impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also
analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the
1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of
political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new
approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for
women in this region and how emerging national states there have
dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions
that govern their lives. Designed for courses in Middle East,
women's, and cultural studies, "Women and Power in the Middle East"
offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to
the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Suad Joseph is
Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of
California, Davis. She is the author of "Intimate Selving in Arab
Families: Gender, Self and Identity and Gender and Citizenship in
the Middle East," general editor of the "Encyclopedia of Women and
Islamic Cultures" and editor of "Gender and Citizenship in the
Middle East." Susan Slyomovics is Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart
Professor of the Study of Women in the Developing World and
Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She is the author of "The Object of Memory: Arab and
Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village" (also available from the
University of Pennsylvania Press), winner of the 1999 Albert
Hourani Book Award given by the Middle East Studies Association,
and the 1999 Chicago Folklore Prize. 2000 256 pages 6 x 9 22 illus.
ISBN 978-0-8122-1749-0 Paper $27.50s 18.00 World Rights
Anthropology, Women's/Gender Studies
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