Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2118: Gender-Identity and Modernity 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, 1998
Al-Ali, Nadje, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement, 2000.
Chatty, Dawn and Rabo, Annika (eds.), Organizing Women: formal and informal groups in the middle east, 1997.
Ghoussoub, May & Emma Sinclair-Webb, Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East, 2000.
Gcek, Fatma and Shiva Balaghi (eds.) Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, Power, 1994.
Haddad, Yvonne and John Esposito (eds.) Islam, Gender and Social Change, 1998.
Jayawardena, Kumari, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, 1986.
Joseph, Suad (ed.) Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity, 1999.
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, 1991.
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, 1996
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran, 1999
Moghadam, Valentine, Modernizing Women: Gender & Social Change in the Middle East, 1993.
Moghissi, Haideh, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of postmodern analysis, 1999.
Tucker, Judith (ed.) Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, 1993