Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and

Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geoÂgraphical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other.
Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belongÂing when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibiliÂties for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.

Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Abdulhadi, Rabab (EDT)/ Alsultany, Evelyn (EDT)/ Naber, Nadine (EDT)
EAN	9780815633860
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0815633866
Label	Syracuse University Press
Manufacturer	Syracuse University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	432
PublicationDate	2015-04-02
Publisher	Syracuse University Press
Studio	Syracuse University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

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