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Mapping Arab Women's Movements

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This volume presents a pioneering collection of analyses focused on the ideologies and activities of formal women’s organizations and informal women’s groups across a range of Arab countries. With ...
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This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women’s organizations and informal women’s groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab diaspora in the United States, Mapping Arab Women’s Movements contributes to delineating similarities and differences between historical and contemporary efforts toward greater gender justice. The authors explore the origins of women’s movements, trace their development during the past century, and address the impact of counter-movements, alliances, and international collaborations within the region and beyond, providing accessible accounts for scholars and others interested in the Middle East and in women’s movements in other settings.
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Price: £24.99
Pages: 408
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789774164989
Format: Hardcover
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Notes of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Pernille Arenfeldt & Nawar Al-Hassan Golley

Chapter 1
Arab Women’s Movements: Developments, Priorities, and Challenges
Pernille Arenfeldt & Nawar Al-Hassan Golley

Chapter 2
Convergences and Divergences: Egyptian Women’s Activisms over the Last Century
Leslie Lewis

Chapter 3
Challenges and Opportunities: The Woman’s Movement in Syria
Pauline Homsi Vinson & Nawar al-Hassan Golley

Chapter 4
The Iraqi Women’s Movement: Past and Contemporary Perspectives
Nadje al-Ali

Chapter 5
Women’s Rights Activism in Lebanon
Rita Stephan

Chapter 6
Harvests of the Golden Decades: Contemporary Women’s Activism in Jordan
Ibtesam al-Atiyat

Chapter 7
Discovering the Positive within the Negative: Palestinian Women’s Movements
Eileen Kuttab

Chapter 8
A Long, Quiet, and Steady Struggle: The Women’s Movement in Yemen
Amel Nejib al-Ashtal

Chapter 9
Fashioning the Future: The Women’s Movement in Kuwait
Mary Ann Tétreault, Helen Rizzo, & Doron Shultziner

Chapter 10
The ‘Makings’ of a Movement ‘by Implication’: Assessing the Expansion of Women’s Rights in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 1971 until today
Vânia Carvalho Pinto

Chapter 11
North American Muslim Women’s Movements and the Politics of Islamic Feminine Hermeneutics
Hanadi al-Samman

Appendix
Women’s Movements in the Gulf Countries
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Centre for Women. The Status of Arab Women. 2005

Bibliography
Index