Arab Women
Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint Suha Sabbagh (Editor)
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
ISBN: 1566561876
Edition: Paperback; 1998-03
Summary:
The lives of Arab women today are complex, diverse and far more
multi-faceted than those of the one-dimensional creatures of veiled
passivity who inhabit the imaginations of so many Western "experts."
In most Arab countries, women face constricting laws and social
customs that hold them back from full participation in their
societies. Some, as a result, lead lives of passive submission. But
others rage against those institutional obstacles, organize other
women to challenge male domination of their public and private lives,
and seize every opening, large or small, to move the rights of women
at least that one next step. Arab women labor in dangerous factories
and unmechanized fields, they keep families intact and care for their
children without access to modern technology; sometimes even without
electricity or clean water. But they also fill medical and
engineering schools in universities throughout the Arab world; they
are creating some of the greatest art and literature of their rich
cultures; they serve bravely in overwhelmingly male parliaments; and
they organize and fight-with or without men's consent-for incremental
democratic gains, and sometimes for their own rights as women. This
collection brings together a distinguished cast of Arab women writers
and other experts and analyzes the lives, the diverse roles and the
means of overcoming the challenges that confront women in today's
Arab societies. Essays examine feminism, women's education and daily
lives, women's views of Islam and women Islamists, and women's roles
in war and literature. It also includes interviews with women
political leaders such as Palestine's Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi and
Jordan's Leila Sharaf. Contributors include: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,
Samira Harfoush-Strickland, Bouthaina Sha'aban, Abla Amawi, Taghreed
Alqudsi-Ghabra, Sheila Carapico, Hadia Higab, Judith Tucker, Ramla
Khalidi, Fatima Mernissi, Fadwa El Guindi, Sarah Graham-Brown,
Richard H. Curtiss, Nagat el-Sanabary, Hala Maksoud, Julinda Abu
Nassr, Suha Sabbagh, Rita Giacaman, Jane Smith, Samer M. Reno,
Mounira Charrad, Mervat F. Hatem, Suad Joseph, Joe Stork, Susan
Slyomovics, Eileen Kuttab and Jean Makdisi.
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