Bad Girls of the Arab World
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477313362 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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. Women's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women's badness, Bad Girls of the Arab Wor
There is no other book like it or similar to it." (Frances S. 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
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 Yaqub is an associate professor of Arabic language and culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books i