Arab & Arab American feminisms : gender, violence, & belonging / edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber.
Abdulhadi, Rabab.; Alsultany, Evelyn.; Naber, Nadine Christine.
2011
HQ1729.5 .A73 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Arab & Arab American feminisms : gender, violence, & belonging / edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780815632238 (alk. paper)
0815632231 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xxxix, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HQ1729.5 .A73 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/8927
Summary
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. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist commitments and ambiguities and to 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. Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the place of Arab Jews in Arab and Arab American histories. This book asks how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging when the countries in which they live wage wars in the lands of their ancestors. This work opens up new possibilities for placing grounded perspectives at the center of gender, Middle East, American, and ethnic studies. -- From publisher.
Rabab Abdulhadi is associate professor of ethnic studies/race and resistance studies and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University. She is a coauthor of Mobilizing Democracy. Her articles have appeared in Gender and Society, Radical History Review, Peace Review, Journal of Women's History, Ms. Magazine, the Guardian, and Palestine Focus, as well as Arab-language newspapers and magazines. --
Evelyn Alsultany is assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11, and The Arab Diaspora. She is the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media Post 9/11. --
Nadine Naber is assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Feminist Studies, Journal of Ethnic Studies, and Journal of Cultural Dynamics. She is a coeditor of Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 and author of Articulating Arabness. --Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Abdulhadi, Rabab.
Alsultany, Evelyn.
Naber, Nadine Christine.
Series
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
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Living With/In Empire: Grounded Subjectivities. Beyond words / Suheir Hammad
The political and cultural representations of Arabs, Arab Americans, and Arab American feminisms after September 11, 2001 / Mervat F. Hatem
Palestinian women's disappearing act: the suicide bomber through western feminist eyes / Amal Amireh
Arab Jews, diasporas, and multicultural feminism: an interview with Ella Shohat / Evelyn Alsultany
In the belly of the beast: struggling for nonviolent belonging / Zeina Zaatari
Decolonizing culture: beyond Orientalist and anti-Orientalist feminisms / Nadine Naber
Inanna / Dunya Mikhail ; translated from the Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow
Defying Categories: Thinking and Living Out of the Box. Between the lines / Youmna Chlala
Quandaries of representation / Mona El-Ghobashy
Dyke March, San Francisco, 2004: many are intrigued by the fact that I am also a belly dancer / Happy, L.A. Hyder
The pity committee and the careful reader: how not to buy stereotypes about Muslim women / Mohja Kahf
History's traces: personal narrative, diaspora, and the Arab Jewish experience / Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Activist Communities: Representation, Resistance and Power. The burden of representation: when Palestinians speak out / Nada Elia
Taking power and making power: resistance, global politics, and institution building, an interview with Anan Ameri / Nadine Naber
Inside out: youth of color organizing from multiple sites, an interview with Janaan Attia / Nadine Naber
Arabiya made invisible: between marginalization of agency and silencing of dissent / Noura Erakat
On Rachel Corrie, Palestine, and feminist solidarity / Therese Saliba
Just Peace Seder / Toronto Just Peace Seder Community
Dissidents, displacements, and diasporas: an interview with Dena Al-Adeeb / Nadine Naber
On Our Own Terms: Discourses, Politics, and Feminisms. Arab American feminisms: mobilizing the politics of invisibility / Amira Jarmakani
Class equality, gender justice and living in harmony with Mother Earth: an interview with Joe Kadi / Nadine Naber
Personal and political: the dynamics of Arab American feminism / Susan Muaddi Darraj
Teaching scriptural texts in the classroom: the question of gender / Moulouk Berry
The light in my house / Imani Yatouma
Guidelines / Lisa Suhair Majaj
Reflections of a genderqueer Palestinian American lesbian mother / Huda Jadallah
Home and Homelands: Memories, Exile, and Belonging. The memory of your hands is a rainbow / Amal Hassan Fadlalla, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
You are a 14-year-old Arab chick who just moved to Texas / Randa Jarrar
The long road home / Sherene Seikaly
The legacy of exile: an excerpt / Emanne Bayoumi
Stealth Muslim / Evelyn Alsultany
Where is home? : fragmented lives, borders crossings, and the politics of exile / Rabab Abdulhadi.

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