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  • Arab American Women

    Representation and Refusal

    by Jess Bier, Amy Rowe, Gregory Orfalea, Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Mejduline Shomali, Carol Haddad, Bridget Blomfield, Nadine Naber, Umayyah Cable, Evelyn Asultany, Amira Jarmakani, Rita Stephan, Therese Saliba ...
    Series series Critical Arab American Studies
    Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine

    How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

    by Jess Bier ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

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  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

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  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Egyptian Revolution

    Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings

    by Nermin Allam ...
    Since the fall of the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, female activists have faced the problem of how to transform the spirit of the uprising into long-lasting reform of the political and social landscape. In Women and the Egyptian Revolution, Nermin Allam tells the story of the 2011 uprising from the perspective of the women who participated, based on extensive interviews with female ... Read more

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  • Sociology and Anthropology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Daniel Martin Varisco ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Contemporary Arab-American Literature

    Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

    by Carol Fadda-Conrey ...
    The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Ca... ... Read more

    $18.59 USD

  • Interpreters of Occupation

    Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network

    by Madeline Otis Campbell ...
    Series series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
    During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters—translating the "human terrain" of Iraq—members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

    by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi, Kieko Obuse ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

    $169.19 USD

  • An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Jessica Johnson, Ian Fairweather ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Saba Mahmood’s 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.Mahmood’s book is a study of women’s participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood – a feminist social anthropologist with left-wing, secular political values – wanted to understand why women should become such active participants in a movement that seemingly promoted their subjugation. As ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Feminism in Islam

    Secular and Religious Convergences

    by Margot Badran ...
    While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture. In this career-spanning collection of influential essays, Margot Badran presents the feminisms that Muslim women have created, and examines Islamic and secular feminist ideologies side by side. Borne out of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD