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Arab and Arab American Feminisms
Gender, Violence, and Belonging
Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber
Cloth $45.00s
| 978-0-8156-3223-8
| 2010
2012 Arab American Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction
"A dynamic and multifaceted as well as intimate narrative of the ‘pattern of rising xenophobia against Arabs and Muslims in the post-September 11, 2001, United States.’"—Choice
"Animated by a radical passion for justice broad enough to bring Palestine into the same frame as transgender issues, environmental sustainability and immigration rights, this volume will challenge any single-axis approach to contemporary activism. The diverse contributors to this anthology collectively demonstrate the value of intersectional approaches for understanding the complexities of Arab and Arab American feminisms."—Angela Y. Davis, author of Women, Culture, & Politics
"Incisive feminist analyses on Arab and Muslim Americans. Empirically rich, creative contributions. Searing critiques of illusions and raw realities of race, gender, sexuality, and nation in ‘post-racial America.’"—Suad Joseph, editor of Citizenship in the Middle East
"The long-awaited volume, Arab and Arab American Feminisms, is destined to become a canonical text for women’s and ethnic studies classes."—Andrea Smith, coeditor of The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
"This groundbreaking book offers an extraordinarily rich collection of powerful voices, which speak in an abundance of diverse genres and perspectives."—Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S Culture
"A passionate, deeply moving, illuminating text that needs to be on everyone’s bookshelf—especially those of us concerned with racial, sexual, and gender justice in a post 9/11 world."Chandra Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
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Rabab Abdulhadi is associate professor of ethnic studies and senior
scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San
Francisco State University. She is the coauthor of Mobilizing Democracy:
Changing U.S. Policy in the Middle East.
Evelyn Alsultany is assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan.
Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Race and Arab
Americans Before and After 9/11, and The Arab Diaspora.
Nadine Naber is assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and
the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her
articles have appeared in the Journal of Feminist Studies, Journal of Ethnic
Studies, and Journal of Cultural Dynamics. She is a coeditor of Race and
Arab Americans Before and After 9/11, published by Syracuse University
Press.
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In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate
experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about
gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered
struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities,
occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets,
creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres
to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American
feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and
intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and
antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within
radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and
between each other.
Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between
gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and
the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks
how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging
when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their
ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities
for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives
at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies,
and ethnic studies.
View other books in the series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
6 x 9, 408 pages, notes, references, index
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