Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM220: Gender, Politics and Society in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 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.

Abu-Lughod, Lila (ed.), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, Princeton UP., 1998 
Al-Ali, Nadje, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement, CUP., 2000. 
Chatty, Dawn and Rabo, Annika (eds.), Organizing Women: formal and informal groups in the middle east, Berg, 1997. 
Ghoussoub, May & Emma Sinclair-Webb, Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East, Saqi Books, 2000. 
Gcek, Fatma and Shiva Balaghi (eds.) Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, Power, Columbia UP., 1994. 
Haddad, Yvonne and John Esposito (eds.) Islam, Gender and Social Change, OUP., 1998. 
Hasso, F.S. Resistance, repression, and gender politics in occupied Palestine and Jordan 
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press. 2005. 
Jayawardena, Kumari, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, Zed Books, 1986. 
Joseph, Suad (ed.) Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity, Syracuse UP., 1999. 
Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone (ed.) On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era New York: Feminist Press. 2005. 
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, 1991. 
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, Macmillan, 1996 
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, I.B.Tauris, 1999 
Moallem, M. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and The 
Politics of Patriarchy in Iran. University of California Press. 2005 
Moghadam, Valentine, Modernizing Women: Gender & Social Change in the Middle East, Princeton UP., 1993. 
Moghissi, Haideh, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of postmodern analysis, Zed Books, 1999. 
Ouzgane, L. Islamic Masculinities. New York, Zed Books. 2006.Tucker, Judith (ed.) Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, Indiana UP., 1993. 
Wadud , A. Inside the Gender Jihad. Women's reform in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 2006.