Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ARAM225: Gender and Politics in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Lila Abu-Lughod (2013) Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Harvard University Press.

 

Attiya Ahmad (2017) Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait, Duke University Press.

 

Zahra Ali (2018) Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation, Cambridge University Press.

 

Sa’ed Atshan and Darnell L. Moore (2014) ‘Reciprocal Solidarity: Where the Black and Queer Palestinian Struggles Meet’, Biography, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 680-705.

 

Asef Bayat (2013) Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah (2020) Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought, London & New York: Verso.

 

Farha Ghannam (2013) Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt’, Stanford University Press.

 

Marnia Lazreg (1988) ‘Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria’, Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 81-107.

 

Saba Mahmood (2005) The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Mohanty, Chandra (1984) ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, pp. 333-358.

 

Rahul Rao (2014) ‘Queer Questions’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, pp. 199-217.

 

Jason Ritchie (2014) ‘Black skin splits: The birth (and death) of the queer Palestinian’ in J. Haritaworn, A. Kuntsman and S. Posocco (Eds.) Queer Necropolitics, Routledge, pp. 111-128.

 

Ella Shohat (2001) ‘Area Studies, Transnationalism and the Feminist Production of Knowledge’, Signs, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 1269-1272.