Author : Caitlin Killian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804754217
A sociological study of the cultural choices and identity negotiation of North African women immigrants in France.
Author : Abdelkader Cheref
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN :
Charts the rise of postcolonial liter written by women from the Maghreb and provides comparative analysis of three prominent contemporary authors.
Author : Abdelmajid Hannoum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838162
Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.
Author : Sanja Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442203978
Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.
Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0415573203
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Author : Teresa A. Meade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470692820
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.
Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700710782
This book explores the language situation and issues relevant to language use among diaspora communities outside the Middle East. Includes papers on Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish in relation to variation, identity, gender, codeswitching and politico-linguistics.
Author : Sherine Hafez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0253007615
This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
Author : Éric Rebillard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0801465559
For too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Jews, pagans, and Christians were largely discrete groups divided by clear markers of belief, ritual, and social practice. More recently, however, a growing body of scholarship is revealing the degree to which identities in the late Roman world were fluid, blurred by ethnic, social, and gender differences. Christianness, for example, was only one of a plurality of identities available to Christians in this period. In Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE, Éric Rebillard explores how Christians in North Africa between the age of Tertullian and the age of Augustine were selective in identifying as Christian, giving salience to their religious identity only intermittently. By shifting the focus from groups to individuals, Rebillard more broadly questions the existence of bounded, stable, and homogeneous groups based on Christianness. In emphasizing that the intermittency of Christianness is structurally consistent in the everyday life of Christians from the end of the second to the middle of the fifth century, this book opens a whole range of new questions for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of Christianity.
Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136787771
The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area.
