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Books in the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East series

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  • - Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul
    by Sertac Sehlikoglu
    £32.99

    Examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.

  • - Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon
    by Gustavo Barbosa
    £75.49

  • by Mariz Tadros
    £93.49

    Charts the arc of the Egyptian women's movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women's status in Egyptian society and politics.

  • by Elizabeth Brownson
    £26.49

    Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari`a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women's active participation in their legal affairs.

  • - Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
    by Lisa Suhair Majaj
    £19.49

    This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.

  • - Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation
    by Lisa Taraki
    £25.99

    Takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. This book posits that household dynamics cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present.

  • - Gender, Self, and Identity
    by Suad Joseph
    £30.99

    This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.

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