Women and knowledge in the Mediterranean
By: edited by Fatima Sadiqi
Series: Routledge advances in Mediterranean studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415642101; 9780203078266
Subjects: Social conditions; Intellectual life; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fatima Sadiqi; title: Women and written knowledge; title: A skeptical cast of mind / Marjorie Lightman; title: Women and knowledge in Italy and Venice during the early modern period / Paola Malpezzi; title: Seven francophone Mediterranean women writers speak out inside and outside / Evelyne Accad; title: Moroccan women authors of French expression : feminine voices of "la littérature-monde" in the age of globalization / Valérie Orlondo; title: The necessity of having it both ways : tradition, modernity, and experience in the works of Hélé Béji / Mary Barnard; title: Women and oral knowledge; title: Textual orality and knowledge of illiterate women : the textual performance of Jewish women in Morocco / Joseph Chetrit; title: Berber women's oral knowledge / Fatima Sadiqi; title: Women, legal, religious, and economic knowledge; title: Morocco's 2004 family code moudawana : improving access to justice for women / Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt; title: Women's access to legal knowledge : the case of Palestinian women's NGOs in Israel / Liat Kozma; title: Women and religious knowledge : focus on Muslim women preachers / Moha Ennaji; title: Women and reproductive knowledge in the Mediterranean / Rachel Newcomb; title: Women and media knowledge; title: Contextulaizing the gender representation in Cyprus television / Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou; title: Gender and political engagement : a role for the media in Malta / Carmen Sammut; title: Stepping out : women blogging in their discontents / Marlyn Tadros.