Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ARAM225: Gender and Politics in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 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.

Abdo, Nahla, Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, 2011.

Abu-Lughod, Lila (ed.), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 1998  

Al-Ali, Nadje, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present, 2007.

Al-Ali, Nadje & Nicola Pratt, Women & War in the Middle East, 2009.

Charrad, Mounira, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Joseph, Suad (ed.) Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity, 1999.

Kanaaneh, Rhoda, Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel, 2002.

Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, 1996

Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, 1991.

Khalil, Andrea (ed.), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, 2014.

Ouzgane, Lahoucine (ed.) Islamic Masculinities, 2006.

Puar, Jasbir, Terrorist Assemblages: homonationalism in queer times, 2007.

Singerman, Diane, Avenues of Participation: Family Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, 1997.