Women and Gender in Middle East - CulturalStudies/Islam/History

Bibliography compiled by Jody Ranck
December, 1996

A

 Abdo, Nahlo (1994). (in Moghadam, ed.) "Nationalism and feminism: Palestinian women and the Intifada -- No Going Back?"

Abu-Lughod, Lila (1986). Veiled Sentiments. Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley, University of California Press.

_____________ (1993). Writing Women's Worlds. Bedouin Women's Stories. Berkeley: UC Press.

Afshar, Haleh (1993). Women in the Middle East: Perceptions, Realities and Struggles for Liberation. NY: St Martin' s Press.

Ahmed, Leila (1992). Women and Gender and Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Alloula, Malek (1986). The Colonial Harem. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Altorki, Sorraya and Camillia Fawzi El Solh (1988). Arab Women in the Field. Studying Your Own Society. Syracause U. Press.

Amin, Qasim (1995). The New Woman: A Document in the Early Debate on Egyptian Feminism. American University of Cairo Press.

Arebi, Saddeka (1994). Women and Words in Saudi Arabia. The Politics of Literary Discourse. New York: Columbia Press.

B

 Badran, Margot (1995). Feminists, Islam and Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Bouatta, Cherifa (1994) (in Moghadam ed). "Feminine militancy: Moudjahidates during andafter the Algerian War."

Boyarin, Daniel (1993). Carnal Israel. Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture. University of California, Berkeley.

D

 Djebar, Assia (1992). Women of Algiers in Their Atments. University of Virginia.

F

 Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock and Basiman Qattan Bezirgan (1977). Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. University of Texas.

G

 Gocek, Fatma Muge and Shiva Balaghi, eds (1994). Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East. Tradition, Identity, and Power. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gorkin, Michael and Rufiqa Othman (1996). Three Mothers, Three Daughters. Palestinian Women' s Stories. UC Press, Berkeley.

H

 Haeri, Shahla (1989). Law of Desire. Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran. Syracuse Press.

K

 Kandiyoti, Deniz (1996). Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives. Syracause University Press, NY.

_____________ (1991). Women, Islam, and the State. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

_____________ (1988) "Bargaining with Patriarchy." Gender and Society,2(3): 274-290.

_____________ (1989). "Women and the Turkish State: Political Actors or Symbolic Pawns?" in Yuval-Davis ed. Woman-Nation-State, New York: St. Martin's Press, NY.

_____________ (1987). "Emancipated but Unliberated? Reflections on the Turkish Case." Feminist Studies, 13(2): Summer 1987.

Keddie, Nikki and Beth Baron (1990). Women in Middle Eastern History. New Haven: Yale University Press.

L

 Lazreg, Marnia (1994). The Eloquence of Silence. Algerian Women in Question. New York: Routledge.

M

 MacLeod, Arlene Elowe (1992). "Hegemonic relations and gender resistance: the new veiling as accomodating protest in Cairo." Signs, 17(31): 533-557.

Marcus, Julie (1992). A World of Difference. Islam and Gender Hierarchy in Turkey. London: Zed Books.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa (1995). Men, Women and God(s): Nawaal El Saddawi and Arab Feminist Poetics. UC Press, Berkeley.

Mayer, Tamar (1995). Women and the Israeli Occupation. Routledge, London.

Mernissi, Fatima (1987 revised.) Beyond the Veil. Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society. Indiana University, Bloomington.

_____________ (1987) The Veil and the Male Elite. A Feminist Interpretation of Women' s Rights in Islam. Addison-Wesley Pub., Reading, MA.

Moghadam, Valentine ed. (1994). Gender and National Identity. Women and Politics in MuslimSociety. United Nations University and Zed Press.

N

 Najjar, Orayb Aref (1990). Portraits of Palestinian Women. University of Utah.

P

 Peteet, Julie (1991). Gender in Crisis.: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. NY: Columbia University Press.

S

 Sabbagh, Suha, ed. (1996). Arab Women. Between Defiance and Restraint. Olive Branch Press, NY.

Shaheed, Farida (1994). "Controlled or autonomous: identity and the experience of the network. "(Women Living Under Muslim Laws). Signs, 19(4): Summer.

Sharoni, Simona (1995). Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. COPRED, Fairfax, VA.

Spellberg, D.A. (1994). Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past. The Legacy olf A' isha Bint Abu Bakr. NY: Columbia University Press.

T

 Tekeli, Sirin ed. (1995). Women in Modern Turkish Society. A Reader. Zed Press, NJ.

____________ (1992). "Europe, European Feminism, and Women in Turkey." Women's Studies International Forum, 15(1):139-143.

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