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Sexuality In The Middle East And North Africa - Contemporary Issues And Challenges

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 While a growing body of scholarship and internal advocacy groups have brought more open dialogue within the Middle East and North Africa region, this volume is the first of its kind to provide critical insights and academic analysis into a broad range of complex and controversial issues dealing with sexuality.
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Quest For Love In Central Morocco - Young Women And The Dynamics Of Intimate Lives

by Laura Menin

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 Moving between public and clandestine interactions and within online environments, Quest for Love in Central Morocco explores the creative ways young women navigate desire and morality.
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Sumud - Birth, Oral History, And Persisting In Palestine

by Livia Wick

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 Opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians, exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. She maps the ways in which individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories.
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The Best Of Hard Times - Palestinian Refugee Masculinities In Lebanon

by Gustavo Barbosa

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 Explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.
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Working Out Desire - Women, Sport, And Self-Making In Istanbul

by Sertac Sehlikoglu

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 Examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.
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Anxiety Of Erasure - Trauma, Authorship, And The Diaspora In Arab Women'S Writings

by Hanadi Al-Samman

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 Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force.
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The Best Of Hard Times - Palestinian Refugee Masculinities In Lebanon

by Gustavo Barbosa

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 Explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.
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Palestinian Women And Muslim Family Law In The Mandate Period

by Elizabeth Brownson

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 Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shariâ€˜a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownsonâ€™s archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of womenâ€™s position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim womenâ€™s active participation in their legal affairs.
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Arab Family Studies - Critical Reviews

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 Offers a country-by-country critical assessment of the available scholarship on Arab families. Sixteen chapters focus on specific countries or groups of countries; seven chapters offer examinations of the literature on key topical issues. Joseph's volume provides an indispensable resource to researchers and students, and advances Arab family studies as a critical independent field of scholarship.
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Ideal Refugees - Gender, Islam, And The Sahrawi Politics Of Survival

by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

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 Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants
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Resistance, Revolt, And Gender Justice In Egypt

by Mariz Tadros

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 Charts the arc of the Egyptian womenâ€™s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. Tadros explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over womenâ€™s status in Egyptian society and politics.
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Intersections - Gender, Nation, And Community In Arab Women'S Novels

by Lisa Suhair Majaj

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 This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.
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Waxcap Mushrooms Of Eastern North America

by Alan E. Bessette

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 A valuable guide to the Waxy Cap Mushrooms of Eastern North America for amateur and professional mycologists, naturalists, forestry personnel, teachers, biologists and wild food enthusiasts.
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Representing The Unpresentable - Historical Images Of National Reform From The Qajars To The Islamic Republic Of Iran

by Negar Mottahedah

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 Explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. This book focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture in the production of the contemporary nation. It examines various discourses that have constituted the image of the ""Babi.
Living Palestine - Family Survival, Resistance, And Mobility Under Occupation

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 Takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. This book posits that household dynamics cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present.
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Pioneers Or Pawns? - Women Health Workers And The Politics Of Development In Yemen

by Marina De Regt

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 Using the Hodeida Urban Primary Health Care Project as a case study, this book offers an analysis of how development policies of the state interconnect with agendas of global donor organizations and the employment of women in the face of social disapproval and barriers to advancement.
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Women Of Jordan - Islam, Labor, And The Law

by Amira Sonbol

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 Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work.
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Intimate Selving In Arab Families - Gender, Self, And Identity

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 This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.
Missing Persians - Discovering Voices In Iranian Cultural History

by Nasrin Rahimieh

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 This work serves to articulate the disparate, dispersed, and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Its complex arguments show five figures' links to a stable Persian identity - complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.
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Fatema Mernissi For Our Times

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Lines Of Flight, Assemblages Of Home - Syrian Women Displaced

by Leila Hudson

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Living Law - Women And Legality In Marinid Morocco

by Rosemary Admiral

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Orphans And Destitute Children In The Late Ottoman Empire

by Nazan Maksudyan

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Fatema Mernissi For Our Times

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