| Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal Contributor(s): Suleiman, Michael W. (Editor), Joseph, Suad (Editor), Cainkar, Louise (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815637098 ISBN-13: 9780815637097 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 2020037001 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8" W x 9.9" (2.00 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists. |