Bad Girls of the Arab World
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477313362 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Women's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled "bad" as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women's behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women's transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions.The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism
Her books include The Voice of Being Enough: Young Jordanian Women Break Through without Breaking Down. She is the author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Weddings in the Galilee.Rula Quawas is a professor of American literature and feminist theory at the University of Jordan. Nadia Yaq
Hasso, Duke University, editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and author of Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East) . "This will be a lovely, unusual, and energizing book to teach at the undergraduate level in Middle East and women’s studies courses. There is no other book like it or similar to it." (Frances S