ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Pre-Islamic Through Post-Colonial Histories
part II|66 pages
Politics and the State
chapter 7|12 pages
Securitized Masculinities
part III|47 pages
Family, Law, and the State
chapter 11|11 pages
Activism, Gender, Transparency, and Family Law
part IV|68 pages
Political and Social Movements
chapter 15|31 pages
Women's Movements in the Middle East
part v|41 pages
Discourses and Practices of Religion
chapter 17|9 pages
The Religious/Secular Binary in Women's Islamic Activism
part vI|63 pages
Economy and Education
part VII|61 pages
Counter/Publics
part viii|71 pages
Sites of Cultural Production
part IX|63 pages
Gendering Health Practices
part X|83 pages
Bodies and Sexualities
part xI|45 pages
Gendered Violence