Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality
Editat de Faegheh Shirazien Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2010
- Peacebrokers in Indonesia
- Exploitation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Chechen women rebels
- Fundamentalism in Afghanistan, from refugee camps to Kabul
- Memoirs of Bengali Muslim women
- The 7/7 London bombings, British Muslim women, and the media
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292728844
ISBN-10: 0292728840
Pagini: 319
Ilustrații: 30 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292728840
Pagini: 319
Ilustrații: 30 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
A native of Iran, Faegheh Shirazi is a professor in the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalists.
Cuprins
- Note from the Editor: Transliteration and Key Terms
- Introduction (Faegheh Shirazi)
- Part I: Central and South Asia
- Indonesia
- Chapter 1. The Peace Brokers: Women of Aceh and Ambon (Sya`afatun Almirzanah)
- India
- Chapter 2. Nation and Selfhood: Memoirs of Bengali Muslim Women (Shamita Basu)
- Afghanistan
- Chapter 3. From Refugee Camp to Kabul: The Influence of Fundamentalism on Afghanistan's Politics and Women (Carol Mann)
- Chapter 4. Gendered Aid Interventions and Afghan Women: Images versus Realities (Lina Abirafeh)
- Chechnya
- Chapter 5. "Black Widows" in the New York Times: Images of Chechen Women Rebels (Sara Struckman)
- Indonesia
- Part II: The Middle East and North Africa
- Iran
- Chapter 6. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women's Images: Masters of Exploitation (Faegheh Shirazi)
- Iraq
- Chapter 7. Widows' Doomsday: Women and War in the Poetry of Hassan al-Nassar (Abbas Kadhim)
- Chapter 8. Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women (Nada Shabout)
- Lebanon
- Chapter 9. In Search of Identity: Hijab Recollections from West Beirut (Nada S. Fuleihan)
- Chapter 10. Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution (Rita Stephan)
- Tunisia and Algeria
- Chapter 11. Images of Manipulation: Subversion of Women's Rights in the Maghreb (Nadia Marzouki)
- Iran
- Part III: Europe and the United States
- Former Yugoslavia
- Chapter 12. Images of Women in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Neighboring Countries, 1992-1995 (Zilka Spahić-Šiljak)
- Spain
- Chapter 13. Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: A Subaltern Image (Ángeles Ramírez)
- Great Britain
- Chapter 14. The 7/7 London Bombings and British Muslim Women: Media Representations, Mediated Realities (Fauzia Ahmad)
- United States
- Chapter 15. Images of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 America (Omar Sacirbey)
- Former Yugoslavia
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Recenzii
Muslim Women in War and Crisis is a unique book….In sum, this book is an important contribution to the growing body of literature addressing the representation of, and the challenges faced by, Muslim women in the post-Cold War period. In collecting and amalgamating such a remarkably diverse group of authors, Faegheh Shirazi has provided readers with different ways of understanding Muslim women in war and crisis.
Descriere
An anthology of international voices, exploring provocative images of Muslim women from around the globe in literature, visual arts, journalism, and other media.