History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East: From Orientalism to the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9781138800601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str.

Lisa Pollard;Mona L. Russell

Opis

A History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East looks at women's history and the history of women and men's gendered social and political experiences from the 19th through the early 21st centuries. From both theoretical and topical points of view, the book considers the events that have shaped women's experiences in Egypt, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Turkey. At the same time, Lisa Pollard and Mona Russell discuss the ways in which phenomena specific to the modern era (colonialism and independence movements, the rise of the nation-state, nationalism, the Cold War, the rise of various forms of political Islam) have produced or altered gendered institutions, gender roles and discourses about gender in the region as well as the circumstances under which institutions and ideologies have been gendered both masculine and feminine over the course of the modern era. The book includes discussions of masculinity, sexuality, male and female experiences with marriage and the family, and the increased visibility of lesbian and gay communities and examines how women's roles, as well as gendered systems and institutions, have changed over time. Combining a chronolgical and thematic approach, and including illustrations and coming right up to date with the Arab Spring, this is the perfect text for all students Middle Eastern History.

Recenzje

This book is unrivaled as an undergraduate textbook dealing with the gendered transformations in the Middle East over the last two hundred years. Combining their depth of knowledge and experience of teaching undergraduates and drawing on recent scholarship, the authors provide a lucid, accessible, and judicious introduction to the diverse and dynamic history of women’s lives in the modern Middle East. Thematically and geographically wide-ranging, the authors provide insightful and engrossing accounts of the various ways in which women from diverse backgrounds and contexts< ranging from royal women in the Ottoman empire to factory workers in Lebanon to political activists in the Arab Spring, have lived, worked, and contributed to the economic, cultural and social life of their societies and the multifaceted ways in which women have experienced and negotiated major social and political transformations and upheavals. This is not only an essential book for undergraduate courses but a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, the modern Middle East, and comparative history.

Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Associate Professor of History, Director of Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Kenyon College, USA

Spis treści

1. History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East  2. Close to Home: Middle Eastern Women’s Lives from the Eighteenth and into the Nineteenth Centuries  3. Middle Eastern Women in the European Imagination  4. New Fathers, New Brides and New Daughters: Reform and its New Men and Women  5. The New Woman through the New Man’s Gaze  6. Beyond the “Woman Question”: Women Define Themselves as Writers, Activists and Revolutionaries  7. New States and their New Women  8. Ethnic States and “their” New Women  9. (Un)finished Business, but not as Usual: Feminisms from the 1950s  10. Women and Work  11. Sexuality  12. Fashion, Clothing, & the Body  13. Houses in Motion: Women in War and Revolution  14. Arab Spring

O autorze

Lisa Pollard is Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is co-editor of Families of a New World (2001) and author of Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (2005). Additional publications include “From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the ‘House of Egypt’” (2010) and “Teaching Muslim Women’s History between Timeless-ness and Change: 18 Parts of Desire” (2014).

Mona L. Russell is an Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. She is the author of Creating the New Egyptian Woman:  Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922 (2004) and Egypt: Middle East in Focus (2013). She has published widely on gender, education and consumerism, most recently, “The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic” (2021) and “Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women” (2021).