Mapping Arab Women's Movements

Description

A survey of women's movements throughout the Arab World, and in North America
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.
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

Sujets

• Women's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781617973536
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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    Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within/ Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012
    p. cm.
    ISBN 978 977 416 498 9
    1. Women, Arab
    I. Arenfeldt, Pernille II. Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan
    III. Title
    305.40956

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Designed by Adam el-Sehemy
To all the women and the men who have worked to enhance gender justice in the Arab region, and to all the scholars who have documented their great work
Contents
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley 1. Arab Women’s Movements: Developments, Priorities, and Challenges Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley 2. Convergences and Divergences: Egyptian Women’s Activisms over the Last Century Leslie Lewis 3. Challenges and Opportunities: The Women’s Movement in Syria Pauline Homsi Vinson and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley 4. The Iraqi Women’s Movement: Past and Contemporary Perspectives Nadje Al-Ali 5. Women’s Rights Activism in Lebanon Rita Stephan 6. Harvests of the Golden Decades: Contemporary Women’s Activism in Jordan Ibtesam Al-Atiyat 7. Discovering the Positive within the Negative: Palestinian Women’s Movements Eileen Kuttab 8. A Long, Quiet, and Steady Struggle: The Women’s Movement in Yemen Amel Nejib al-Ashtal 9. Fashioning the Future: The Women’s Movement in Kuwait Mary Ann Tétreault, Helen Rizzo, and Doron Shultziner 10. The ‘Makings’ of a Movement ‘by Implication’: Assessing the Expansion of Women’s Rights in the United Arab Emirates from 1971 until Today Vânia Carvalho Pinto 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) Center for Women Index
Notes on Contributors

Nadje Al-Ali is professor of gender studies and chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is currently president of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). Her publications include “Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women’s Movement,” Cambridge Middle East Studies 14 (2000), Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007), and (with Nicola Pratt) What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation in Iraq (2009).

Pernille Arenfeldt is assistant professor of history, Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Her scholarly interests are centered on two areas: women and gender in the modern Middle East, especially the Gulf countries; and women and gender in early modern Europe, particularly the German-speaking territories and Scandinavia. She co-edited (with Regina Schulte, et al.) the essay collection titled The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500–2000 (2006) and has published widely on women and gender in early modern Europe. During the summer semester of 2011, she held the Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Women’s Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.

Amel Nejib al-Ashtal is a graduate student at Columbia University, pursuing an MS in public policy. She graduated magna cum laude from the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with a BS in management information systems and minors in international studies and women’s studies. She volunteers for the global solidarity network Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and is active in the online community through participation in advocacy networks and discussion fora. She also runs an activist group on Facebook that focuses on raising awareness about women’s issues in Yemen.

Ibtesam Al-Atiyat has been an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota since January 2010. Prior to that she held teaching positions at the German Jordanian University and served as a senior program director at the Jordanian National Commission for Women in Amman, Jordan.

Nawar Al-Hassan Golley is associate professor in literary and critical theory and women’s studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Al-Hassan Golley is the author of Reading Arab Women’s Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story (2003) and editor of Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing (2007). She has presented several papers at international conferences, such as the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, published many articles in prestigious scholarly journals, and translated several literary and critical works by writers such as Adonis, Edward Said, Etel Adnan, and others. Her research interests are in critical and literary theory, colonial and post-colonial literatures and discourses, feminism and women’s studies, Arab women’s writings, autobiography, and modern Arabic literature.

Eileen Kuttab is assistant professor in sociology and the founder and director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University from 1999 to 2008. As a woman activist, she has been involved with grass-roots women’s organizations and has served on boards of trustees of human rights and development research centers. Her main research interests center on different issues, including the relation of feminism and nationalism, the women’s movement, and gender and development, especially women’s work in the informal sector. She has published widely in these areas. Her current work is on Palestinian youth, gender, and political participation, and empowerment paradigms.

Leslie Lewis is a lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California at San Diego, and associate faculty member in the Anthropology Department at MiraCosta College. She is a former research fellow at the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University in Cairo, and a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for her ethnographic research in Egypt. In additional to her work in Egypt, she has undertaken research in Central America and the northeast United States. Her publishing credits include academic articles, book chapters and reviews, co-authorship of The Academic Game (2005), and authorship of a book entitled The Cairo Chronicles (2008). She lives in San Diego, California.

Vânia Carvalho Pinto is a faculty member at the Institute of International Relations in the University of Brasília in Brazil. She studied in Portugal (Coimbra), the Netherlands (Leiden), the United Kingdom (Exeter), and Germany (Hildesheim). She held a visiting researcher position at the Supreme Council of Family Affairs in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2008, and lectured at both the University of Exeter, from 2005 to 2006, and the University of Hildesheim in 2009. She is the author of the book chapter “Women and Political Participation in the United Arab Emirates,” in Diversity and Female Political Participation: Views on and from the Arab World , edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation (2010), the chapter on “Arab States” in Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview , edited by Gretchen Bauer and Manon Tremblay (2011), and of Nation, State, and the Genderframing of Women’s Rights in the United Arab Emirates (1971–2009) (forthcoming).

Helen Rizzo is associate professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo. Her research interests include political sociology, with a focus on democratization, development and the Middle East, and stratification, particularly gender and race/ethnic inequality. She has published numerous articles on public opinion, citizenship rights, and the democratization process in Kuwait. She is the author of Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women: The Case of Kuwait (2005). She is currently working with colleagues on a National Security Foundation Human and Social Dynamics grant project examining the dissent/repression nexus in the Middle East.

Hanadi Al-Samman is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern and Arab women’s studies, transnational feminism, and literature of the Arab diaspora. Her current research interests examine the status of gay and lesbian studies in modern Arabic literature. Her research has been published in the Journal of Arabic Literature , Women’s Studies International Forum , and an edited collection of translated literary works. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Poetics .

Doron Shultziner is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and an instructor in the Departments of Political Science and History at Emory University. His areas of expertise are comparative democratization, political psychology, nonviolent conflict, and interdisciplinary studies involving the life sciences. He is the author of Struggling for Recognition: The Psychological Impetus for Democratic Change (2010).

Rita Stephan is an analyst at the United States Census Bureau. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin