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Mapping Arab women's movements : a century of transformations from within
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- Creator
- edited by Pernille Arenfeldt, Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cairo, Egypt ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 392 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1617975265, 161797353X, 9774164989, 9781617971266, 9781617973536, 1322150443, 9781617975264, 161797126X, 9789774164989
- OCLC
- ocn812066851, ocn795907422
- "Dar el Kutub No. 24791/11"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Arab women's movements : development, priorities, and challenges / Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley -- Convergences and divergences : Egyptian women's activisms over the last century / Leslie Lewis -- Challenges and opportunities : the women's movement in Syria / Pauline Homsi Vinson and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley -- The Iraqi women's movement : past and contemporary perspectives / Nadje Al-Ali -- Women's rights activism in Lebanon / Rita Stephan -- Harvests of the golden decades : contemporary women's activism in Jordan / Ibtesam Al-Atiyat -- Discovering the positive within the negative : Palestinian women's movements / Eileen Kuttab -- A long, quiet, and steady struggle : the women's movement in Yemen / Amel Nejib al-Ashtal -- Fashioning the future : the women's movement in Kuwait / Mary Ann Tétreault, Helen Rizzo, and Doron Shultziner -- The 'makings' of a movement 'by implication' : assessing the expansion of women's rights in the United Arab Emirates from 1971 until today / Vânia Carvalho Pinto -- North American Muslim women's movements and the politics of Islamic feminine hermeneutics / Hanadi Al-Samman -- Appendix : women's movements in the Gulf countries / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Center for Women