Gender and violence in the Middle East
By: edited by Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi
Series: UCLA center for Middle East development (CMED) -- 4; UCLA Center for Middle East Development series -- 4.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780415594103; 9780415594110; 9780203830727
Subjects: Sex discrimination against men; Violence against; Women; Sex role; Patriarchy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi; title: Conceptualization and theoretical background. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut; title: Armed conflict and gender-based violence. Counter-narratives of Palestinian women : the construction of her-story and the politics of fear / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian ; Gender, youth and institutional support in the occupied Palestinian territories / Islah Jad ; Impact of armed conflict on gender roles in Lebanon / Lamia Rustum Shehadeh; title: Politics, war, and violence against women in Iraq and Afghanistan. War and gender in Bathist Iraq / Achim Rohde ; Violence against Afghan women : tradition, religion, conflict, and war / Anne E. Brodsky; title: Religious and social violence against women. Religious-based violence against women, and feminist responses : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam ; Strategy in the battles over her : Islamism and secularism / Sherifa Zuhur ; Reproductive health correlates of intimate partner violence in Jordan / Cari Jo Clark; title: Gender-based discrimination and legal reform.  Legal reforms on violence against women in Turkey : best practices / Pinar Ilkkaracan and Liz Ercevik Amado ; Violence against women in Morocco : advances, contentions, and strategies to combat it / Moha Ennaji; title: Language, sexual harassment and media.  Women and the violence of stereotypes in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi ; Dismantling the discourses of war : Palestinian women filmmakers address violence / Nadia Yaqub.