ISBN:
9780815655138
,
0815655134
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 488 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Critical Arab American studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Arab American women
DDC:
305.48/8927073
Keywords:
Arab American women Social conditions
;
Arab Americans Ethnic identity
;
Arab Americans History
;
Sex role
;
Arab Americans
;
Arab Americans ; Ethnic identity
;
Sex role
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
;
History
;
United States
Abstract:
Preface I / Suad Joseph -- Preface II / Michael W. Suleiman -- Tribute to Michael W. Suleiman / Suad Joseph -- Arab American Women: Intersectional Genealogies and Trajectories / Suad Joseph -- A Brief History of Arab-American Women 1890s-WWII / Michael W. Suleiman -- Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women's Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area, 1880-1930 / Jess Bier -- "Keeping Us Lebanese": The Role of Unmarried Daughters of OttomanEra Lebanese Immigrants in New England / Amy E. Rowe -- Rose and the Four Sisters of Fate (Part II) / Gregory Orfalea -- An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880-1935 / Charlotte Karem Albrecht -- From Lebanon to Louisiana: 'Afifa Karam and Arab Women's Writing in the Diaspora / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri -- Transfigurations: Home-Space in Two Arab American Women's Novels / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Scheherazade and the Limits of Inclusive Politics in Arab American Literature / Mejdulene Shomali -- Second-Wave Arab-American Feminist Activism: The Story of the Feminist Arab-American Network / Carol Haddad -- Daughters of Fatima: Shi'a Iraqi Women in the United States / Bridget Blomfield -- An Anti-Imperialist Transnational Approach to Middle East Women's Studies / Nadine Naber -- Interview with Elaine Hagopian / Umayyah Cable -- Arab America Gender Representations in the New York Times: 1851 Through 1919 / Suad Joseph -- Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman Post 9/11 / Evelyn Alsultany -- "Desert" Is Just Another Word for Freedom / Amira Jarmakani -- Ethnic Citizenship in a Time of Crisis: Lebanese-American Women in the 2006 War / Rita Stephan -- Dangerous Women/Women in Danger: Gendered Impacts of Hate and Repression 9/11 and Beyond / Louise Cainkar -- Gendering the Security State: Family and Community Impacts of Arab Detentions in the Northwest US / Therese Saliba.
Abstract:
"This rigorous, multidisciplinary volume on Arab American women includes contributions from scholars and activists in in a diverse array of fields, including history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, women and gender studies, and creative writing"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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