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The required reading list for developing a deeper understanding of 'middle east'...

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The following journal articles and book chapters should be available on the UOS ARBC2681 (Gender and Politics in the Arab World) website as e-readings. Readings with a star are compulsory. The others are recommended

Week 1 Introduction to the field. Basic questions Harris, Heather. ‘Coyote Goes to School: The Paradox of Indigenous Higher Education’. Canadian Journal of Native Education 26, no. 2 (2002): 187–196,201.

Week 2 Gender. A Useful Category for Arab and Middle East Studies? (Part 1) *Scott, Joan (1986). Gender. A Useful Category of Historical Analysis? The American Historical Review, 91 (5), 1053-1075 *Najmabadi, Afsaneh (2006). Beyond the Americas, Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Historical Analysis? Journal of Women’s History, 18 (1), 11–21.

All the articles in the Roundtable “Gendering Middle East History” (2016). International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (03). Recommended

Week 3 Gender. A Useful Category for Arab and Middle East Studies? (Part 2) *Tucker, Judith (2004). Rescued from obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa, A Companion to Gender History, 393-412 *Peirce, Leslie. "Writing Histories of Sexuality in the Middle East." The American historical review 114.5 (2009): 1325-1339.

Naghibi, Nima (2013). Women’s Studies/Gender Studies, Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Brill Online

Week 4 Postcolonial Feminist Scholarship and Middle East Studies *Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’. Feminist Review 30, no. 1 (1 November 1988): 61–88. doi:10.1057/fr.1988.42.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. ‘“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles’. Signs 28, no. 2 (1 January 2003)

Spivak Gayatri Chakrabarti, “Can the subaltern speak?” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, 1988

*Kimberle Crenshaw, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color", Stanford Law Review, 43, no 6, 1991, pp. 1241-1300

Week 5 Decolonizing Feminist and Middle East Studies

*Mehrez, Samia (2007), Translating Gender, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 3 (1), 106-127. *Marnia Lazreg, decolonizing feminism, in the eloquence of silence: Algerian women in question, 1994, Routledge Jarrod Hayes; De Groove Is in de Move: Decolonizing Sex and Sexuality in Middle East and North African Studies. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 July 2018; 14 (2): 143–151. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680192 (Links to an external site.)

Narayan, Uma. Dislocating Cultures : Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism . Dislocating Cultures : Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism. New York: Routledge, 1997. Shanley, Mary Lyndon, and Uma. Narayan. Reconstructing Political Theory : Feminist Perspectives . Reconstructing Political Theory : Feminist Perspectives. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Week 6 The Gendered Politics of Islamic History *Mernissi, Fatima (c1991). The veil and the male elite: a feminist interpretation of women's rights in Islam, Reading, Mass: AddisonWesley Pub. Co. (Read at least part 1 of the book, from p. 1 to p.61) *Badran, M. (2005). Between secular and Islamic feminism/s: Reflections on the Middle East and beyond. Journal of Middle East women's studies, 1(1), 6-28. Badran, Margot. ‘Locating Feminisms: The Collapse of Secular and Religious Discourses in the Mashriq’. Agenda 16, no. 50 (1 January 2001): 41–57. Badran, Margot. ‘Feminisms and Islamisms’. Journal of Women’s History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1 January 1999. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0540. Badran, Margot (2001). Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic Feminism. Journal of Women’s History, 13 (1), 47-52. Badran, Margot. ‘Between Muslim Women and the Muslimwoman’. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 24, no. 1 (2008): 101–6.

Week 7 Women, Gender, History, and New Hermeneutics of Islam (part 1) Samyukta (choose two articles) -eReserve

Week 8

Women, Gender, History and New hermeneutics of islam part 2) Samyukta (choose two articles)

Week 9 Modern Women’s Writing and Politics in the Arab World *Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (2002). Modernist Arab Women Writers: A Historical Overview, in Majaj, L. S., Sunderman, P. W., & Saliba, T. (eds.), Intersections: gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels. Syracuse University Press. Pp 1-30 *Al-Nowaihi, Magda M. "Resisting Silence in Arab Women’s Autobiographies." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 33.4 (2011): 477-502.

Week 10 The History of Arab Feminism. Focus on Egypt *Badran, Margot (1991). Competing Agenda: feminists, Islam and State in the 19th and 20th Century Egypt, in Deniz Kandiyioti (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, Macmillan, London. El-Mahdi, Rabab (2009). A Feminist Movement in Egypt?" Cairo Papers in Social Sciences. Political and Social Protest in Egypt (2), 117-134 Nelson, Cynthia (1986). The Voices of Doria Shafik: feminist consciousness in Egypt, 1940-1960. Gender Issues 6 (2), 15-31. *Amal Treacher, Hala Shukrallah. ‘The Realm of the Possible: Middle Eastern Women in Political and Social Spaces’. Feminist Review 69, no. 1 (1 November 2001): 4–14. doi:10.1080/01417780110070085.

Week 11 Women, Gender and the Arab Uprisings (20112019) *Sorbera, Lucia “Early Reflections of an Historian on Feminism in Egypt in Time of Revolution”, in Femminismi nel Mediterraneo (a cura di Leila El-Houssi e Lucia Sorbera), Genesis – Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche, XII, 1-2013, pp. 13-42

Sorbera, Lucia. ‘Challenges of Thinking Feminism and Revolution in Egypt between 2011 and 2014’. Postcolonial Studies 17, no. 1 (2 January 2014): 63–75 *Sorbera, Lucia “Body Politics and Legitimacy: Towards a feminist epistemology of the Egyptian revolution”, Global Discourse, June 2016 Winter, Bronwyn, “Women’s human rights and Tunisian upheavals: is ‘democracy’ enough?”, Global Discourse, March 2016

Week 12 Women, Gender and conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa *Efrati, Noga. ‘COMPETING NARRATIVES: HISTORIES OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN IRAQ, 1910–58’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 40, no. 3 (August 2008): 466a–466. doi:10.1017/S0020743808081014. Efrati, Noga. ‘WOMEN, REPRESENTATION AND DEMOCRACY IN POSTSADDAM IRAQ, 2003–10’. Representation 48, no. 3 (1 September 2012): 253–65. Efrati, Noga (2004). The Other ‘Awakening’ in Iraq: the Women’s Movement in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 31(2), 153-173. Al-Ali, Nadje (2016) Sexual Violence in Iraq: Challenges for Transnational Feminist Politics. European Journal of Women’s Studies. DOI: 10.1177/130506816633723 *Ali, Zahra. ‘Women’s Political Activism in Iraq: Caught between NGOization and the Struggle for a Civil State’. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 12, no. 1 (1 March 2018): 35–51. doi:10.1386/ijcis.12.1.35_1. For those among you who have a specific interest in contemporary literature, a relevant extra reading for this week could be The Beekeper of Sinjar, by the Iraqi poet, novelist and scholar Dunya Mikhail (2018).

A review of the book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/thebeekeeper-of-sinjar-dunya-mikhail-review (Links to an external site.)

Cooke, Miriam. "Arab Women Arab Wars." Cultural Critique, 29 (1994-1995): 5-29.

Week 13 Do Muslim Women Need Freedom and Saving? *Saba Mahmood, “The Subject of Freedom”, in Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the feminist subject, Princeton UP, 2005 Khader, Serene. ‘Do Muslim Women Need Freedom? Traditionalist Feminisms and Transnational Politics’. Politics 12, no. 4 (1 December 2016): 727–53. *Abu-Lughod, Lila. ‘Do Muslim Women Need Saving?’ Ethnicities. SAGE Publications, October...