Routledge Handbook on Women in The Middle East Edited by Suad Joseph and Zeina Zaatari

The Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East provides an overview of the key historical, social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which have shaped the conditions and status of women in the region.

The book is divided into eleven thematic sections, providing a comprehensive guide to understanding the current and historical contexts of women in the Middle East, each giving ground-breaking insights into various aspects of women’s movements:

The importance of historical context, including pre-Islamic through post-colonial histories
The importance of politics and the state in understanding women in the ME
Women’s roles in political and social movements
The impacts of the formal and informal economies and education on women of the region
Women’s spaces and the creation of publics and counter publics
The effects of war, displacement, and other forms of gendered violence
Women, family, and the state
Discourses and practices of religion
Women and health practices
Bodies and sexualities
Women and sites of cultural production
A unique overview of cutting-edge research in the key arenas of pre-Islamic to post-colonial histories, this Handbook will affect the way future generations of scholars engage with and add to the vast repository of socio-political studies of the Middle East. It will thus be of interest to researchers in gender studies, women’s studies, pre-Islamic and post-colonial studies, feminist studies, and socio-political and socio-economic studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction, Suad Joseph and Zeina Zaatari; Pre-Islamic Through Post-Colonial Histories 1. Women in the Ancient Middle East, Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi; 2. Women in Islamic Middle East, Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi; 3. Women of the Middle East in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras, Ellen L. Fleischmann Politics and the State 4. Women and Citizenship, Rania Maktabi; 5. Women’s Political Participation in the Middle East, Yasmine Berriane; 6. The Gendering of U.S. Refugee Subjects in the Middle East, Madeline Otis Campbell; 7. Securitized Masculinities: Europe’s Muslims and Middle Eastern Diasporas after 9/11, Muneeza Rizvi; 8. The Body and Revolution in the Middle East, Sherene Seikaly and Sara Scalenghe Family, Law, and the State 9. Family and the State, Bettina Dennerlein; 10. Islamic Family Law, Dörthe Engelcke; 11. Activism, Gender, Transparency, and Family Law: Linking Efforts in Family Law Reform with Anti-Corruption, Transparency, and Accountability, Sawsan Gharaibeh and Brendan Carchidi; 12. Women and Marriage in the Middle East, Annelies Moors Political and Social Movements 13. Women and Revolution in the Middle East, Shahrzad Mojab; 14. Political Transformations, Protests, (Counter)revolutions, and Body Politics in the Middle East, Nadje Al-Ali; 15. Women’s Movements in the Middle East: From Feminist Consciousness to Intersectional Feminism and Everything in Between, Zeina Zaatari; 16. Women in Middle East Revolutions and States’ Gendered Responses, Pouya Alimagham Discourses and Practices of Religion 17. The Religious/Secular Binary In Women’s Islamic Activism: A Critical Feminist Epistemology, Sherine Hafez; 18. Religious Practices of Muslim Women in the Middle East, Kathleen M. Moore; 19. Middle Eastern Jewish Women and Religion, Rachel Feldman Economy and Education 20. Women’s Economic Empowerment and Development in the Middle East, Racha Ramadan; 21. Women and the Informal Economy, Simel Eşim and Mansour Omeira; 22. Migrant Domestic Work in the Middle East, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Karina Santellano; 23. Gender and Consumerism in the Middle East, Mona Russell; 24. Women and/in Higher Education in the Middle East: Past and Present, Issam Khoury Counter/Publics 25. Women, Journalism, and Media, Caroline McKusick; 26. The Art of Presence: Middle Eastern Women in the Digital Age, Mariam Abdul-Dayyem; 27. Women’s Participation in Public and Street Art, alma aamiry-khasawnih; 28. Egypt: The Vanished Representations of Gender and Graffiti After 2011, Mona Abaza Sites of Cultural Productions 29. Art as Material Form and Agent: Becoming ‘Middle Eastern Women’ through Art, Kirsten Scheid; 30. Arab Women’s Literature from Anonymity to Global Presence, Hanadi Al-Samman; 31. Women and Performance/ Entertaining: Music, Dance, and Cinema, Sherifa Zuhur; 32. Comics by Middle Eastern Genderqueer and Women Artists, Sherine Hamdy and Myra El Mir Gendering Health Practices 33. Middle East Women’s Health in the Context of Patriarchy and Social Change, Hania Sholkamy; 34. New Reproductive Technologies, Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne; 35. Women’s Health and Aging in the Middle East, Cortney Hughes Rinker; 36. Women and Mental Health in the Middle East, Niveen Rizkalla Bodies and Sexualities 37. Masculinity in the Middle East: A Growing Field, Farha Ghannam; 38. Women’s Bodies as Sites of Political Struggle: A History of Unfinished Protests, Marta Agosti; 39. Sex and Politics, Pardis Mahdavi; 40. Notes on Sartorial Representations of the Middle East, R. Arzu Ünal; 41. Middle East Queer Affairs: Concepts, Bodies, and Politics, Walaa Alqaisiya; 42. Gender Nonconformity and Transness in the Middle East, Aslı Zengin Gendered Violence 43. Intimate and Domestic Violence in the Middle East, Dana M. Olwan; 44. Sexual Violence in Public in the Middle East and North Africa, Hind Ahmed Zaki; 45. Gendered Socioeconomic Consequences of Armed Conflict in the Middle East, Jennifer C. Olmsted; List of Contributors