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Intimate Selving in Arab Families

Author : Suad Joseph
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628170
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Selving in Arab Families written by Suad Joseph and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of relationships—a topic which has received considerable attention in Europe, the United States, and parts of Asia, until now has not been addressed in the Arab world. Here for the first time are articles written by native feminist scholars that focus on intimate Arab familial relationships and provide a scholarly discussion of gendering of the self (the process of intimate selving) in the Arab community. The book is divided into three parts: biographical and autobiographical; ethnographic; and literary accounts in which the authors identify key family relationships—mother-son, brother-sister, mother-daughter-granddaughter, co-wives, and father-daughter—and explore them in terms of shaping and defining gender in relation to others.

Intimate Selving in Arab Families

Author : Suad Joseph
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628088
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature

Author : Dalya Abudi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004181148
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature written by Dalya Abudi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship. It draws on both early and contemporary writings of Arab women to illuminate the traditional and evolving nature of mother-daughter relationships in Arab families and how these family dynamics reflect and influence modern Arab life.

Arab Family Studies

Author : Suad Joseph
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654243
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Arab Family Studies written by Suad Joseph and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nation as a family. To motivate loyalty, political leaders frame themselves as fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters to their clients, parties, or the citizenry. To stimulate production, economic actors evoke the sense of duty and mutual commitment of family obligation. To sanctify their edicts, clerics wrap religion in the moralities of family and family in the moralities of religion. Social and political movements, from the most secular to the most religious, pull on the tender strings of family love to recruit and bind their members to each other. To call someone family is to offer them almost the highest possible intimacy, loyalty, rights, reciprocities, and dignity. In recognizing the significance of the concept of family, this state-of-the-art literature review captures the major theories, methods, and case studies carried out on Arab families over the past century. The book 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.

An Enchanted Modern

Author : Lara Deeb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840783
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book An Enchanted Modern written by Lara Deeb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and pious. In this depiction of a Shi'I Muslim community in Beirut, Deeb examines the ways that individual and collective expressions and understandings of piety have been debated, contested, and reformulated. Women take center stage in this process, a result of their visibility both within the community, and in relation to Western ideas that link the status of women to modernity. By emphasizing the ways notions of modernity and piety are lived, debated, and shaped by "everyday Islamists," this book underscores the inseparability of piety and politics in the lives of pious Muslims.

Religion, Families, and Health

Author : Christopher G. Ellison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547180
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Families, and Health written by Christopher G. Ellison and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of population-based research on the relationships of religion to family life and health.

Power, Sect and State in Syria

Author : A. Maria A. Kastrinou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729551
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Power, Sect and State in Syria written by A. Maria A. Kastrinou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Syrian state's rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in practice, the state continually engaged with the Druze and other minorities to reinforce its legitimacy, often through cultural policy. Uncovering this neglected aspect of pre-war Syrian politics, Kastrinou explores the cultural politics of marriage in Syria, primarily among the Druze, to reveal how practical rituals of marriage inform sectarian and national identity formation.Challenging the assumed inherence of sectarianism and Druze endogamy, the book provides an historical and ethnographic account of political power and its relation to social control in Syria. It demonstrates the centrality of the body to Druze cosmology and how ritual performances of birth, marriage and death maintain and negotiate sectarian cohesion. Connecting these struggles to national and international politics, Kastrinou examines how both the Syrian government and the European Union have sponsored marriage-themed dance performances in Syria, each leveraging its cultural importance to legitimise their own policy goals. The book establishes marriage as a pervasive idiom for the construction of collective identity in Syria, which is appropriated by individuals, sects, states and intergovernmental organizations alike. Its conclusions are relevant to scholars of Middle East studies, sectarianism, anthropology and politics.

Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century

Author : Anan Ameri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313377154
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century written by Anan Ameri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed study documents positive Arab-American contributions to American life and culture, especially in the last decade, debunking myths and common negative perceptions that were exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror. The term "Arab American" is often used to describe a broad range of people who are ethnically diverse and come from many countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Some Arab Americans have been in the United States since the 1880s. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 did serve to highlight the necessity for Americans to better understand the discrete nations and ethnicities of the Middle East. This title documents the key aspects of contemporary Arab American life, including their many contributions to American society. It begins with an overview of the immigrant experience, but focuses primarily on the past decade, examining the political, family, religious, educational, professional, public, and artistic aspects of the Arab American experience. Readers will understand how this unique experience is impacted by political events both here in America and in the Arab world.

Palestinian Women

Author : Cheryl Rubenberg
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879563
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Women written by Cheryl Rubenberg and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a case study of the deleterious effects of patriarchy among Palestinians living in rural villages and refugee camps of the West Bank: its negative consequences for men as well as women, for democratization and for progress toward the creation of a more just society.

Women in the Crossfire

Author : Robert Paul Churchill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190468572
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Crossfire written by Robert Paul Churchill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their families: such 'transgressions' range from walking with a boy in their neighborhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing, to being a victim of rape. Women in the Crossfire presents a thorough examination of honor killing, an ages-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination. To understand the practice of honor killing, its root causes, and possibilities for protection and prevention, Robert Paul Churchill considers the issues from a variety of perspectives: epistemic, anthropological, sociological, cultural, ethical, historical, and psychological. He makes use of original research by analyzing a database of honor killing cases, published here for the first time. Specifically, Women in the Crossfire addresses the salient traits and trends present in honor killing incidents and examines how honor is understood in socio-cultural contexts where these killings occur. The book aims to illuminate causal pathways that combine to produce the tragedy of honor killing. Socialization within honor-shame cultures, factors such as gender construction, child-rearing practices, and adverse experiences prime boys and men to take roles as one-day killers of sisters, daughters, and wives in the name of honor. The book further relies on theories of cultural evolution to explain how honor killing was an adaptation to specific ecological challenges and co-evolved with other patriarchic institutions. The ultimate aim of Women in the Crossfire is to convey promising methods of preventing future honor killings, and to protect girls and women from victimization.

Anthropology and the Individual

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1847884962
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and the Individual written by Daniel Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad. Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to concepts such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

The Best of Hard Times

Author : Gustavo Barbosa
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565524X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Hard Times written by Gustavo Barbosa and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best of Hard Times 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. While the fida’iyyinn displayed their masculinity through active resistance and fighting to return to their homeland, the shabab have a more nuanced relationship to Palestine and articulate their gender belonging in alternative ways. Through vivid ethnographic stories, Barbosa critically engages with certain trends in feminism, calling attention to their limits and considering nimble views on gender. Instead of presenting the shabab as emasculated or experiencing a crisis of masculinity, the book shows the pliability of masculinity in time and space and argues that "gender" has limited purchase to capture the experiences of today’s youth from Shatila. Based on two years of fieldwork, The Best of Hard Times answers the burgeoning demand for anthropological literature on Arab masculinities and portrays refugees as inventive actors rather than agentless victims of circumstances beyond their control. The Best of Hard Times is a tour de force combining highbrow theory with gripping ethnography, challenging many of the stereotypes on gender, power, statehood, and the role of Islam in the Middle East.

Muslim Divorce in the Middle East

Author : Jessica Carlisle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319770071
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Divorce in the Middle East written by Jessica Carlisle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century? Who has the power to initiate and resist shari‘a derived divorce? When are husbands and wives made to bear the costs of their marital breakdown? What does divorce law indicate about the development of gender regimes in the Middle East and North Africa? This book opens with a description of the historical development of Islamic divorce in the MENA. Subsequent chapters follow a Syrian male judge, a Moroccan female legal advice worker and a Libyan female judge as they deal with divorce cases in which husbands, wives, their relatives and lawyers debate gender roles in contemporary Muslim marriages. MENA ‘state feminism’ has increasingly equalized men’s and women’s access to divorce and encouraged discussions about how spouses should treat each other in marriage. The real life outcomes of these reforms have often been surprising. Moreover, as the last chapter explores, jihadi proto-states (such as Islamic State) have violently rejected state feminist divorce law reform. This accessible book will appeal to students, researchers and a general readership interested in Islamic law; Middle Eastern studies; gender and sexuality; and, legal and social anthropology.

Warm Hands in Cold Age

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136013741
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Warm Hands in Cold Age written by Nancy Folbre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention to who does the actual work of day-to-day care for those no longer able to care for themselves; and although women are the majority among the elderly, little is heard about gender differences in economic resources or the need for care. This volume is dedicated to giving gender - and a full range of social and cultural differences - their rightful place in these discussions. The authors address, amongst other issues: the worldwide dilemmas of eldercare the structure of income and care provisions for older populations the role of family, marital status, and class in these provisions the impact of polices affecting retirement age the role of social insurance in preventing poverty among elderly women. The essays included address these topics in a myriad of geographical contexts, including South Africa, the US, Palestine, Australia, South Korea, Spain, Germany, and Sweden. The concerns highlighted here also remind us that whether through individual families or social insurance, through family caregivers or paid help, the oldest generation will continue to depend on adults of working age for its well-being. This book was previously published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.

Arab American Women

Author : Michael W. Suleiman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655134
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Arab American Women written by Michael W. Suleiman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.

Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East

Author : D. Cohen-Mor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137335203
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East written by D. Cohen-Mor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families.

Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society

Author : Gary S. Gregg
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195310039
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Identity in a Muslim Society written by Gary S. Gregg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. 1. Theory. A Model of Identity. Moroccan Culture, Personality, and Identity. 2. A Cultural Geography. 3. Mohammed. 4. Hussein. 5. Rachida. 6. Khadija. 7. Conclusions. Personality Organization. Self Representation. Personality in Middle Eastern Societies. Cultures and Selves. Epilogue. References.