ISBN:
0-333-57565-2
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 250 Seiten
Series Statement:
Women's Studies at York Series
Keywords:
Mittlerer Osten Arabische Staaten
;
Iran
;
Ägypten
;
Israel
;
Palästina
;
Frau
;
Emanzipation, Frau
;
Sozialer Status
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Freiheit
;
Frauenrecht
;
Frau und Islam
;
Muslime
;
Feminismus
Abstract:
This book offers both theoretical perspectives and detailed examples which provide the analytical frameworks chosen by the Middle Eastern women themselves to explain the strategies they have chosen for liberation. The studies deal with Islam and its impact on personal and public lives of women in the region as well as their political struggles for liberation both internally and internationally. - provided by the publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Development studies and women in the Middle East: the dilemmas of research and development / Afshar, Haleh. - A _Western invention of Arab womanhood: the 'Oriental' female / Mehdid, Malika. - Women, marriage and the law in post-revolutionary Iran / Mir-Hosseini, Zib. - Women's everyday religious discourse in Iran / Kamalkhani, Zahra, PhD. - Attitudes to female employment in four Middle Eastern Countries / Papps, Ivy. - Women, work and power in the Rafsanjan Basin of Iran / Razavi, Shahrashoub. - Women's resistance in the Arab world and in Egypt / Saadawi, Nawal El. - The Saddam Hussein phenomenon and male-female relations in the Arab World / Karmi, Ghada. - Women in the resistance movement in Iran / Moghissi, Haideh. - The emergence of a Joint Israeli-Palestinian women's peace movement during the Intifada / Pope, Juliet J. - The Interrogation of Women 'Security' detainees by the Israeli General Security Service / Thornhill, Teresa. - Women's struggles and strategies in the rise of fundamentalism in the Muslim world: from entryism to internationalism / Hélie-Lucas, Marie-Aimée
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