Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging Contributor(s): Abdulhadi, Rabab (Editor), Asultany, Evelyn (Editor), Naber, Nadine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815633866 ISBN-13: 9780815633860 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: 305.488 |
Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East |
Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.96" W x 9.06" (1.31 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Arab World - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geo-graphical 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 among 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 belong-ing when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibili-ties for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies. |