Women and Power in the Middle East.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Overviews -- Women's Activism in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective -- Women and Politics in the Middle East -- Women and Work in the Arab World -- The Politics of Gender and the Conundrums of Citizenship -- Part II. Country Case Studies, West to East -- State and Gender in the Maghrib -- Sex, Lies, and Television: Algerian and Moroccan Caricatures of the Gulf War -- An Interview with Heba Ra'uf Ezzat -- Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives -- Sudanese Women and the Islamist State -- For the Common Good? Gender and Social Citizenship in Palestine -- Women and the Palestinian Movement: No Going Back? -- Searching for Strategies: The Palestinian Women's Movement in the New Era -- Gender and Citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish Experience -- Women in Saudi Arabia: Between Breadwinner and Domestic Icon? -- Women's Organizations in Kuwait -- The Dialectics of Fashion: Gender and Politics in Yemen -- The Political Economy of Female Employment in Postrevolutionary Iran -- Notes -- Comprehensive Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments.

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