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History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East: From Orientalism to the Arab Spring

by Lisa Pollard
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781138800601
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 40.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 466 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Middle East / General and Modern / General

This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped relations in the modern era.

The book captures three aspects of change simultaneously: the events that mark the "modern" Middle East, women's encounters with the transition to modernity and gendered responses to modernity. It contains both new fieldwork and a synthesis of secondary scholarship that highlight the role of gender in the modernization of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, the Levant and the Persian Gulf states. Chapters are organized chronologically to chart the rapid developments of the modern era, but each chapter also stands on its own, with coverage of masculinity and femininity, sexuality, marriage and the family, labor and women's contributions to Arab Spring uprisings. Through this comprehensive account, the book pushes back on stereotypes that the Middle East is an ahistorical region and that women have not been vital actors in the process of change.

Richly illustrated and accessible for a variety of readers, History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in gender studies and Middle Eastern history.

Lisa Pollard is Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is co-editor of Families of a New World (2001) and author of Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (2005). Additional publications include "From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the 'House of Egypt'" (2010) and "Teaching Muslim Women's History between Timeless-ness and Change: 18 Parts of Desire" (2014).

Mona L. Russell is an Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. She is the author of Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922 (2004) and Egypt: Middle East in Focus (2013). She has published widely on gender, education and consumerism, most recently, "The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic" (2021) and "Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women" (2021).

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