1st Edition
Women, Power, and Gender in the Middle East
List of Contributors
Introduction
Shilan Fuad Hussain
Part I Women, Power, and Gender in the Middle East
Chapter 1. Contextual Racialisation of Women in Turkey: Their Response Through Embodied Identification
Hafza Girdap
Chapter 2. Implementation of UN Women’s Peace and Security Agenda: Challenges and Resolutions
Cemre Ulker
Part II Feminist Movements and Political Transformation
Chapter 3. Feminist Politics and Conservative Society? Rojava / North and East Syria and the Policy of Women’s Liberation
Khabat Abbas and Thomas Schmidinger
Chapter 4. Rojava’s Kurdish Women’s Movement: Achievements and Challenges
Katia Zagoritou
Chapter 5. Jin, Jiyan, Azadî: The Rojhelatî Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement
Rojin Mukriyan
Chapter 6. The MeToo Movement against Sexual Violence in Iran: The 800 Women of Cinema and Theatre Campaign
Donya Ahmadi
Part III Gendered Violence, Social Control, and Bodily Autonomy
Chapter 7. Dishonour Killings: Exploring Why Women Are Murdered in Acts of Honour-Based Violence
Shilan Fuad Hussain
Chapter 8. Surrogacy in the UAE: Reproductive Labourers and Reproducing Narratives
John Lucas M. Taylor
Chapter 9. Individuation of Maghrebi Women: The Quest for Identity in the Midst of Panic and Crisis
Nassera Guezzen Azizi
Index
Biography
Shilan Fuad Hussain is a researcher in gender studies, human rights, and cultural analysis. A Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher and UNESCO Fellow, her work focuses on gender-based violence, women’s rights, sexuality, arranged/forced marriages, patriarchy, and identity in diaspora contexts.
