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Gender and violence in the Middle East / edited by Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi.

Contributor(s): Ennaji, Moha [( editor. )] | Sadiqi, Fatima [( editor. )].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011Description: xvii, 279 p.ISBN: 9780415594103.Subject(s): Women -- Violence against -- Middle East | Women -- Violence against -- Africa, North | Sex discrimination against men -- Middle East | Sex discrimination against men -- Africa, North | Patriarchy -- Middle East | Patriarchy -- Africa, North | Sex role -- Middle East | Sex role -- Africa, NorthDDC classification: 362.83 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction: contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi -- Conceptualization and theoretical background. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index.

Introduction: contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi -- Conceptualization and theoretical background. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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