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Bibliographies


Gender and Feminist Organizing in the Middle East

Abdo, Nahla. 1987. Family, Women and Social Change in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case. Toronto: Canada Scholar Press.

__________. 1994. "Nationalism and feminism: Palestinian women and the Intifada-No going back?" In Gender and National Identity. (ed.) V. Moghadam. London: Zed Books.

Abul-Hadi, Rebab. 1998. "Palestinian women's autonomous movement: Emergence, dynamics and challenges." In Gender and Society 12(6): 649-673.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. ed. 1998. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton University Press

__________. 2001. "Women on women: Television feminism and village lives." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (ed.) S. Joseph and S.Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Abu-Nasr, Julinda. 1982. "The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab world." In Women's Studies Quarterly (supplement) January (1): 15-17.

Afkhami, M. and E. Friedl. eds. 1997. Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. New York: Syracuse University Press.

Afsaruddin, Asma. ed. 1999. Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female 'Public' Space in Islam/ic Societies. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Afshar, Haleh. 1993. "Development studies and women in the Middle East: The dilemmas of research and development" In Women in the Middle East. (ed.) Haleh Afshar. London: Macmillan Press.

__________. ed. 1996. Women and Politics in the Third World. New York: Routledge.

__________. ed. 1993. Women in the Middle East. London: Macmillan Press.

Alarcon, N. et al. eds. 1999. Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues. Durham: Duke University Press.

Arat, Y. 2001. "Gender and citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish experience." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (eds.) S. Joseph and S. Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Augustin, E. ed. 1993. Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience. London: Zed Books.

Badran, Margot. 1999. "Towards Islamic feminisms: A look at the Middle East." In Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female 'Public' Space in Islam/ic Societies. (ed.) Asma Afsaruddin. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Boustani, Samih and Nada Mufarrji. 1995. "Female higher education and participation in the labour force in Lebanon." In Gender and Development in the Arab World. (eds.) Nabil Khoury and Valentine Moghadam. London: Zed Books.

Chatty, D. and A. Rabo. 1998. Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East. Oxford: Berg.

Cockburn, C. 2000. "Women in Black: Being able to say neither/nor." In Canadian Women's Studies 19(4).

Comite Nationale de la Femme. 1997. La Femme Libanaise 1970-1995, Cliffre et Sens Editions de la Source.

Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East. 2002. Women in the Middle East 2.

Cooke, Miriam. 2001. Women Claim Islam. New York: Routledge

El Saasawi, Nawal. 1993. "Women's resistance in the Arab world and Egypt" In Women in the Middle East. (ed.) Haleh Afshar. London: Macmillan Press Ltd.

__________. 1999. "The feminist movement." In Women in Islam and the Middle East. (ed.) Ruth Roded. London: I.B. Tauris.

Giacaman, R., J. Islah and P. Johnson. 2001. "For the common good? Gender and social citizenship in Palestine." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (eds.) S. Joseph and S. Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Giacaman, R. and P. Johnson. 2001. "Searching for new strategies: The Palestinian women's movement in the new era." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (eds.) S. Joseph and S. Slyomovics. S. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Giacaman, R. 1996. "The women's movement on the West Bank." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Glavanis-Grantham, Katherine. 1996. "The women's movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: Unresolved contradictions." In Women and Politics in the Third World. (ed.) Haleh Afshar. New York: Routledge.

Gocek, Fatima and Shiva Balaghi. eds. 1994. Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gorkin, Michael and Rafiqa Othman. Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories. New York: The Other Press.

Gruenbaum, Ellen. 2001. "Sudanese women and the Islamic state." In Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity and Power. (eds.) Fatima Gocek and Shiva Balaghi. New York: Columbia University Press.

Habib, Lina Abu. 1998. "The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon." In Gender and Development 6(1).

Haddad, Y. and J. Esposito. eds. 1998. Islam Gender and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press.

Haj, Samira. 1992. "Palestinian women and patriarchal relations." In Signs 17(4): 761-778.

Hamadeh, Najla S. 1999. "Wives or daughters: Structural differences between urban and Bedouin Lebanese co-wives." In Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity. (ed.) Suad Joseph. Syracuse University Press.

Hammami, Rema. 1995. "Commentary: Feminist scholarship and the literature on Palestinian women." In Gender and Society Working Paper. Palestine: Women's Studies Program, Birzeit University.

__________. 1993. "Women in Palestinian society." Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions. (ed.) M. Hielberg and G. Overson. Oslo: FAFO.

Hasso, Frances. 1998. "The women's front: Nationalism, feminism and modernity in Palestine." In Gender and Society 12(4): 441-465

Hatem, Mervat. 1993. "Toward the development of post-Islamist and post nationalist feminist discourses in the Middle East." In Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers. (ed.) Judith Tucker. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

__________. 1996. "Economic and political liberalization in Egypt and the demise of state feminism." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Heyzer, N. and I. Landsberg-Lewis. 1996. "UNIFEM and the women's climb to equality: No turning back." In Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. (eds.) M. Afkhami and E. Friedl. New York: Syracuse University Press.

Holt, Maria. 1999. "Lebanese Shia women and Islamism: A response to war." In Women and War in Lebanon. (ed.) Lamia Shehedeh. Miami: University Press of Florida.

Joseph, S. & S. Slyomovics. eds. 2001. Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Joseph, Saud. 1999. "Brother-sister relationships: Connectivity, love and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon." In Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity. (ed.) Suad Joseph. Syracuse University Press.

__________. 1991. "Elite strategies for state building: Women, family, religion and
the state in Iraq and Lebanon." In Women Islam and the State. (ed.) Deniz Kandiyoti. Hong Kong: Temple University Press.

__________. 2001. Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. New York: Syracuse University Press.

__________. 1996. "Gender and family in the Arab world." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch
Press.

__________. 1994. "Problematizing gender and relational rights: Experiences from Lebanon." In Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 1(3): 271-85.

__________. 1997. "The public/private: The imagined boundary in the imagined nation/state/community-The Lebanese case." In Feminist Review Autumn(57): 73-92

__________. 1997. "The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon: Shopkeepers and feminists." In Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East. (eds.) D. Chatty and A. Rabo. Oxford: Berg.

__________. 1999. "My son/myself, my mother/myself: Paradoxical relationalities of patriarchal connectivity." In Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity. (ed.) Suad Joseph. Syracuse University Press.

__________. 1999. "Women between nation and state in Lebanon." In Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues. (eds.) N. Alarcon et al. Durham: Duke University Press.

__________. 2001. "Women and politics in the Middle East." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (eds.) S. Joseph and S. Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kandiyoti, Deniz. ed. 1995. "Contemporary Feminist Scholarship and the Middle East." In Gender and Society Working Paper. Palestine: Women's Studies Program, Birzeit University.

__________. 1996. Gendering the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris.

__________. 2001. "The politics of gender and the conundrums of citizenship." In Women and Power in the Middle East. (eds.) S. Joseph and S. Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

__________. 1991. Women Islam and the State. Hong Kong: Temple University.

Khalidi, R. and J. Tucker. 1996. "Women's rights in the Arab world." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Kikoski, Catherine K. 2000. "Feminism in the Middle East: Reflections on ethnographic research in Lebanon." In Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 11(4).

King-Irani, L. 1997. "Imperiled pioneer: An assessment of the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab world." In Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform. (eds.) M. Afkhami and E. Friedl. New York: Syracuse University Press.

Mogannam, Matiel. 1937. The Arab Woman and the Palestinian Problem. London: H. Joseph.

Moghadam, Valentine. 1993. Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East. Boulder: L. Rienner

__________. 1997. "Women's NGO's in the Middle East and North Africa: Constraints, opportunities, and priorities." In Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East. (eds.) D. Chatty and A. Rabo. Oxford: Berg.

Mogheizal, Laure. 1997. "Gender and the transmission of citizenship in Lebanese law." American University of Beirut: Presented at the Gender and Citizenship Conference.

Moghissi, Haideh. 1993. "Women in the resistance movement in Iran." In Women in the Middle East. (ed.) Haleh Afshar. London: Macmillan Press Ltd.

Moors, Annelies. 1995. Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Peteet, Julie. 1994. "Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A cultural politics of violence." In American Ethnologist 21(1): 31-49.

Pope, Juliet. 1993. "The emergence of a joint Israeli-Palestinian women's peace movement during the Intifada" In Women in the Middle East (ed.) Haleh Afshar. London:Macmillan Press Ltd.

Roded, Ruth. 1999. Women in Islam and the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris

Rubenberg, C. 2001. Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank. Boulder: L. Rienner

Sabbagh, Suha. Ed. 1996. Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. New York: Olive Branch Press.

__________. 1996. "Palestinian women and institution building" In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

__________. 1996. "The declaration of principles on Palestinian women's rights: An analysis." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Sayigh, Rosemary. 1993. "Palestinian women and politics in Lebanon." In Arab Women: Old Boundaries New Frontiers. (ed.) Judith Tucker. Bloomington: Indiana University.

__________. 1998. "Gender sexuality and class in national narration: Palestinian camp women tell their lives." In Frontiers 19(2).

Sha'aban, Bouthaina. 1996. "The hidden history of Arab feminism." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum. 1998. "The legal status of married women in Lebanon." In International Journal of Middle East Studies 30(4): 501-519.

Skaine, Rosemarie. 2002. The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban. McFarland and Company.

Stork, Joe. 1996. "Gender and civil society: An interview with Suad Joseph." In Arab Women Between Defiance and Restraint. (ed.) Suha Sabbagh. New York: Olive Branch Press.

Tucker, Judith. ed. 1993. Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Warcock, Fernea E. and B. Qattar Bezirgan. eds. 1992. Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. Texas: University of Texas Press.

WLUML Women Living Under Muslim Law. 2006. Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - 3rd Edition. Nottingham, UK: The Russell Press.

 

 

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