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Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
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Description for Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Hardcover. In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centred struggles. Editor(s): Abdulhadi, Rabab; Alsultany, Evelyn; Naber, Nadine. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia ... Read more
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632238
SKU
V9780815632238
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Ref
99-60
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Rabab Abdulhadi is associate professor of ethnic studies and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University. Evelyn Alsultany is assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Nadine Naber is assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Program in American Culture at the ... Read more
Reviews for Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
While several chapters feel crucial to current discussions of transnational feminist solidarity—Mohja Kahf’s ‘Pity Committee and the Careful Reader’ and an interview with Ella Shohat—the book’s approach and value is perhaps most visible in one of its more striking essays, Amal Amireh’s ‘Palestinian Women’s Disappearing Act: The Suicide Bomber Through Western Feminist Eyes.’ A dynamic and ... Read more