Taylor & Francis India: Middle East Gender

Edited by Stephanie Cronin

In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women’s veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or…

Paperback – 2016-04-24
Routledge
Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

By Eylem Atakav

Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics,…

Paperback – 2014-09-12
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media

By Khalid M. Al-Azri

Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women’s rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the…

Paperback – 2014-08-15
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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

By Zahra Tizro

This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that…

Paperback – 2014-03-10
Routledge
Iranian Studies

By Elham Manea

Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states – while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives. This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab…

Paperback – 2014-03-10
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

Edited by Roksana Bahramitash, Eric Hooglund

This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims. Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in…

Paperback – 2014-03-10
Routledge
Iranian Studies

Edited by Moha Ennaji, Fatima Sadiqi

This book explores the relationship between Islamism, secularism and violence against women in the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on case studies from across the region, the authors examine the historical, cultural, religious, social, legal and political factors affecting this key issue.…

Paperback – 2011-04-19
Routledge
UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series

Edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji

This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of…

Paperback – 2010-10-25
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UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series

By Samar Habib

This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth…

Paperback – 2009-04-29
Routledge
Routledge Research in Gender and Society