Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

The books in this pathbreaking series are cross-cultural in scope and address some of the major issues being debated in the field today. We are particularly interested in texts that reflect the complexity of these issues and illuminate conflicts and contention rather than gloss over them. Among the issues to be addressed are:

• Women, Gender, and Islam
• Women’s Rights and National Liberation
• Gender, Work, and Development
• Gender Relations, the State, and Civil Society
• Representations of Middle Eastern Women
• Men and Masculinity
• Feminism and the Politics of Identity
• Women’s Movements and Feminism

Arab Women’s Lives Retold Exploring Identity Through Writing
Edited by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Cloth $45.00L    |    978-0-8156-3122-4    |    2007

Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies
Edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Paper $45.00s    |    0-8156-3055-7    |   2005

Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World
Mahnaz Afkhami, ed.
Available in the U.S., Canada, its dependencies, and Philippines
Cloth $49.95L    |   0-8156-2667-3   |   1995

Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives
Deniz Kandiyoti, ed.
Available only in the U.S., Canada, its dependencies, and the Philippines
Cloth $45.00L    |   0-8156-2695-9    |    1996

Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
Edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2951-6    |    2002

Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity
Suad Joseph, ed.
Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2808-0    |    1999

Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation
Lisa Taraki, editor
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-3107-3    |    2006

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Beijing Platform
Mahnaz Afkhami & Erika Friedl, eds.
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2759-9    |    1997

No Shame For the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women
Shahla Haeri
Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2960-5    |    2002

Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen
Marina de Regt
Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3121-7    |    2007

Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran
Negar Mottahedeh
Cloth $29.95s    |    978-0-8156-3179-8    |    2007

Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan
Frances Hasso
Paper $24.95s    |    0-8156-3087-5    |    2005

Rituals of Memory: in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing
Brinda Mehta
Cloth $45.00s    |    978-0-8156-3135-4    |    2007

Voices From Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
Mahnaz Kousha
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2962-1   |    2002

War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Miriam Cooke
Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0377-0    |    1996

Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2964-8    |    2003

Women's Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in Jordan
Carol Malt
Cloth $24.95s    |    0-8156-3078-6    |   2004   

For more information:

Professor Miriam Cooke
Asian & African Languages and Literature
Duke University
2101 Campus Drive
Box 90414
Durham, NC 27708-0414
Phone 919-684-2312
Fax 919-681-7871
mcw@duke.edu

Mary Selden Evans
Executive Editor
Syracuse University Press
Phone 315-443-5543
msevans@syr.edu

Professor Suad Joseph
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
220 Young Hall
Davis, CA 95616
Phone 530-752-1593
Fax 530-752-8885
sjosephs@ucdavis.edu

Professor Simona Sharoni
Evergreen State College
Seminar 3127
Olympia, WA 98505
Phone 360-866-6000 x 6196
Fax 202-885-2494
ssharon@american.edu