Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780415642101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Fatima Sadiqi

Opis

Employing a range of theories and methodologies, this book explores four main domains in which women's knowledge is attested: women and written knowledge; women and oral knowledge; women and legal, religious, and economic knowledge; and women and media knowledge.

Spis treści

Introduction – Fatima Sadiqi Part I : Women and Written Knowledge 1 A Sceptical Cast of Mind – Marjorie Lightman 2 Women and Knowledge in Italy and Venice During the Early Modern Period: Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella – Paola Malpezzi 3 Seven Francophone Mediterranean Women Writers Speak Out Inside and Outside – Evelyne Accad 4 Moroccan Women Authors of French Expression : Feminine Voices of  La Littérature Monde in the Age of Globalization – Valerie Orlando 5 The necessity of Having it Both Ways : Tradition, Modernity and Experience in the Works of Hele Beji – Debbie Barnard Part II : Women and Oral Knowledge  6 Textual Orality and Knowledge of Illiterate Women : The Textual performance of Jewish Women in Morocco – Joseph Chetrit 7 Berber Women’s Oral Knowledge – Fatima Sadiqi Part III : Women, Legal, Religious and Economic Knowledge  8 Morocco’s 2004 Family Code Moudawana : Improving Access to Justice for Women – Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt  9 Women’s Access to Legal Knowledge : The Case of Palestinian Women’s NGOs in Israel – Liat Kozma 10 Women and Religious Knowledge : Focus on Muslim Women Preachers – Moha Ennaji  11 Women and Reproductive Knowledge in the Mediterranean – Rachel Newcomb Part IV : Women and Media Knowledge 12 Contextualising the Gender Representation in Cyprus Television – Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou  13 Gender and Political Engagement : A Role for the Media in the Malta – Carmen Sammut 14 Stepping Out : Women Bloggers in Their Discontents – Marilyn Tadros