Reconstructing gender in the Middle East : tradition, identity, and power / Fatma Müge Göçek and Shiva Balaghi, editors.

New York : Columbia University Press, [1994], ©1994.

xii, 233 pages ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB

Reconstructing gender in the Middle East through voice and experience / Fatma Müge Göçek and Shiva Balaghi -- Gender, tradition, and history / Juan R.I. Cole -- Neotraditionalism in the poetry of Simin Behbahani / Farzaneh Milani -- Wearing the hijab in contemporary Morocco : choice and identity / Leila Hessini -- Turkish women and the republican reconstruction of tradition / Zehra F. Arat -- Gender, identity, and anthropology / Ruth Behar -- Notes from the village : on the ethnographic construction of women in Iran / Erika Friedl -- Women's movement of the 1980s in Turkey : radical outcome of liberal Kemalism? / Yeşim Arat -- Growing up in Israel : a personal perspective / Rachel Persico -- Coming of age in occupied Palestine : engendering the Intifada / Leila Hudson -- "Metaphor can kill" : gender, power, and the field of the literacy / Anne Herrmann -- Arab women Arab wars / Miriam Cooke -- Arab males, Hebrew females : the lure of metaphors / Anton Shammas -- Where has all the power gone? Women and politics in popular quarters of Cairo / Diane Singerman -- Keeping it in the family : gender and conflict in Moroccan Arabic proverbs / Elizabeth M. Bergman.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [219]-224) and index