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  • Tournaments of Value

    Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

    par Anne Meneley ...
    A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of women's social centrality in the Islamic Middle ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Tournaments of Value

    Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

    par Anne Meneley ...
    Collections series Anthropological Horizons
    A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Beyond the Veil

    Male-female Dynamics in Muslim Society

    par Fatema Mernissi ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    par Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

  • Veil

    Collections series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil, Rafia Zakaria examines how veils do more than they get credit for.Part memoir and part philosophical investigation ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Female Homosexuality in the Middle East

    Histories and Representations

    par Samar Habib ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Syrian Episodes

    Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo

    When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • A Society of Young Women

    Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

    The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Feeding Desire

    Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

    par Rebecca Popenoe ...
    While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From the time of the loss of their first milk teeth, girls ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Being Arab

    par Samir Kassir ...
    Traduit par Will Hobson ...
    In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and Islamism in order to take the future of the region into their own hands. With the Arab Spring, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Domestic Violence in Iran

    Women, Marriage and Islam

    par Zahra Tizro ...
    Collections series Iranian Studies
    This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that domestic violence is deeply rooted in society and situated in the fundament of current discourses ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Muslim Becoming

    Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

    par Naveeda Khan ...
    In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD