Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging
Title | Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Abdulhadi, Rabab, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber |
Number of Pages | 430 |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
City | Syracuse, NY |
Abstract | In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other. Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. |
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