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“Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women” (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).
The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more than in the Middle East and Muslim worlds. And no one within those worlds has been more affected than women, who face new and vital questions.
Has Arab Spring made life better for Muslim women? Has new media empowered feminists or is it simply a tool of the opposition? Will the newfound freedoms of Middle Eastern women grow or be taken away by yet more oppressive regimes?
This “provocative volume” has been updated with a new introduction and two new essays, offering insider views on how Muslim women are navigating technology, social media, public space, the tension between secularism and fundamentalism, and the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship (Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, UCLA).
“Featured are such relevant topics as women’s roles in reinterpreting Islam, the importance of understanding both religious and secular women’s ideas and practices, the growth and growing importance of women’s transnational ties and the importance for women of television and the internet. I recommend it to everyone to everyone interested in expanding and deepening their understanding of women in the Muslim world today.” –Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Iranian History, University of California, Los Angeles
I. Women and the Transformation of Public Space
Defying Marginality: Young Women 's Politics and Social Media in the Middle East
Lobule Hanna Skalli
The Satellite, the Prince, and Shaherazad: Women as Communicators in Digital Islam
Fatema Mernissi
On- and Off-Camera in Egyptian Soap Operas: Women, Television, and the Public Sphere
Lila Abu-Lughod
Singing a New Song: Bonding and Breaking With the Past
Sherifa Zuhur
Wings of Freedom: Iranian Women, Identity, and Cyberspace
Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone
The Challenge of Globalization in Saudi Arabia
Mai Yamani
II. Gender, Communication, and Religion
Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminism
Asma Barlas
Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject
Saba Mahmood
The Veil Debate—Again
Leila Ahmed
Between Religion and Secularism: Islamist Women of Hamas
Islah Jad
III. Women and Citizenship in an Information Society
The Prospects for Democracy: Women Reformists in the Iranian Parliament
Elaheh Koolaee
Women and Civil Society in Iran
Mehrangiz Kar
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Women’s Rights
Zainah Anwar
Women and the Dynamics of Transnational Networks
Meena Sharify-Funk
Shirin Ebadi: A Perspective on Women’s Rights in the Context of Human Rights
Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone