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
Biography
Fatima Sadiqi is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship. Her main research interests are language, culture, and women’s and gender issues in North Africa. She is currently writing a book with the provisional title A Feminism of One’s Own: Women’s Empowerment in Morocco – Going Beyond Islam.
