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  • The Female Circumcision Controversy

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Ellen Gruenbaum ...
    To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcision, have responded with outrage; those committed to improving the status of women have gone beyond ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Female Circumcision Controversy

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Ellen Gruenbaum ...
    To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcision, have responded with outrage; those committed to improving the status of women have gone beyond ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

    Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

    by Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Alsarah, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos0, Nancy Gallagher1, Katarzyna Grabska2, Ellen Gruenbaum3, Asma M. Abdel Halim4, Sara A. Hassanain5, Guma K. Komey6, Amina Alrasheed Nayel7, Margret Otto8, Richard Rottenburg9, Ulrike Schultz0, Pindai Sithole1, Atta El-Battahani2 ...
    This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

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    Male-female Dynamics in Muslim Society

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex and World Peace

    by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Valerie Hudson, Chad Emmett ...
    Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings, supporting their findings with detailed analyses and color maps. Harnessing an ... Read more

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  • Unspeakable Love

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

    by Brian Whitaker ...
    Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour'. Amid the calls for reform in the Middle East, homosexuality is one issue that almost everyone in the region would prefer to ignore. In this absorbing account, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker calls attention to the voices of men ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Veil of Vice

    The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East

    by John R. Bradley ...
    The Middle East has long been something of a mystery to Westerners, and in particular, the sexual mores of the region continue to fascinate. Arabs are often described as being in a state of Islam-induced sexual anxiety and young Muslims' frustrations are said to be exacerbated by increasing exposure to the licentiousness of the West. Here, Middle East expert John R. Bradley sets out to uncover the ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Anthropology Matters, Third Edition

    by Shirley A. Fedorak ...
    The third edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connecting important concepts to current global issues. A question-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader cross-cultural context while building an appreciation for anthropology’s role in developing global citizenship.This edition has been updated and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • A Convergence of Civilizations

    The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

    by Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Forsaken Females

    The Global Brutalization of Women

    by Andrea Parrot, Nina Cummings ...
    Women around the world routinely suffer from beatings, rape, torture and murder. These are not the practices of a few demented individuals, but are often institutionalized, culturally-sanctioned behaviors. Millions of women live in a constant state of isolation, terror and fear; for most, escape is nearly impossible due to economic, social, or cultural restrictions. Forsaken Females describes the ... Read more

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  • The New Arab Man

    Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East

    by Marcia C. Inhorn ...
    Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD