Bibliography of Readings: Gender and Women’s Studies in SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa)

Abi Saab, Malek. Militant Women of a Fragile Nation. Syracuse University Press, 2010.

Abu-Habib, Lina. “Middle and Near East.” Gender Training: The Source Book, edited by Caroline Sweetman, Oxfam Publishing, 1998, pp. 55-62.

Accad, Evelyne. “Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women in the Middle East.” Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty et al., Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 237-250.

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. Yale University Press, 1992.

Alsultany, Evelyn. “Dislocations: Arab Jews and Multicultural Feminism-an Interview with Ella Shohat.” Gender Nation and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives, edited by Maha Yahya, MIT Journal of Middle East Studies: Crossing Boundaries, New Perspectives on the Middle East, vol. 5, 2005, pp. 50-56.

Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women & The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Translated by Samiha Sidhom Peterson, American University Cairo Press, 2000.

Arenfeldt, Pernille and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, editors. Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within. The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. 

Badran, Margot. "Between Secular and Islamic Feminism/s: Reflections on the Middle East and Beyond." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 1 no. 1, 2005, p. 6-28. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/408727.

Badran, Margot. Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences. One World, 2009.

Booth, Marilyn. “On Gender, History, …and Fiction.” Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century, edited by Israel Gershoni et al., University of Washington Press, 2006, pp. 211-241.

Cainkar, Louise, Pauline Homsi Vinson, and Amira Jarmakani, editors. Sejjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies. Syracuse University Press, 2022. 

cooke, miriam. War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Daly, Sunny. "Young Women as Activists in Contemporary Egypt: Anxiety, Leadership, and the Next Generation." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 6 no. 2, 2010, p. 59-85. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/380074.

Darraj, Susan Muaddi. “Understanding the Other Sister: The Case of Arab Feminism.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, vol. 53, no. 10, 2002, pp. 15-26.

Deeb, Lara. “Silencing Religiosity: Secularity and Arab American Feminisms.” Gender Nation and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives. The MIT Journal of Middle East Studies: Crossing Boundaries, New Perspectives on the Middle East, vol. 5, 2005, pp. 202-207.

Deeb, Lara. An Enchanted Modern : Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. Princeton University Press, 2006.

Farah, Laila. “The Markings of Women’s Cultural Membership in a Globalized World.” Women and Language, vol. 26, no. 1, 2003, pp. 26-34.

Fleischmann, Ellen. “The Impact of American Protestant Missions in Lebanon on the Construction of Female Identity, c. 1860–1950.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, vol. 13, no. 4, 2002, pp. 411-426.

Gerner, Deborah. “Mobilizing Women for Nationalist Agendas: Palestinian Women, Civil Society, and the State-Building Process.” From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women’s Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Edited by Valentine Moghadam, Syracuse University Press, 2007, pp. 17-39.

Giambalvo, Theresa Ann. Negotiating Citizenship: Arab Women in Militant Movements. Dissertation, American University of Beirut, 2006.

Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan. "Is Feminism Relevant to Arab Women?" Third World Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, 2004, pp. 521-536.

Haddad, Yvonne Y., and Jane I. Smith. "Women in Islam: ‘The Mother of All Battles’." Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint, edited by Suha Sabbagh, Olive Branch Press, 1996, pp. 137-150.

Hafez, Sherine. "Gender and Citizenship Center Stage: Sondra Hale’s Legacy and Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 10 no. 1, 2014, p. 82-104. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/530197

Hasso, Frances S. "The 'Women's Front': Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Palestine." Gender and Society, vol. 12, no. 4, 1998, pp. 441-465.

Hawkesworth, Mary E. Globalization & Feminist Activism. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2006.

Hoda Yousef; Malak Hifni Nasif: Negotiations of a Feminist Agenda between the European and the Colonial. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 March 2011; 7 (1): 70–89. doi: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.2011.7.1.70

Jad, Islah. “Between Religion and Secularism: Islamist Women of Hamas.” On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, The Feminist Press, 2005, pp. 172-198.

Jain, Devaki. Women, Development and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice. Indiana University Press, 2005.

Johnson-Odim, Cheryl. “Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World Women and Feminism.” Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 314-327.

Joseph, Suad. “Gendering Citizenship in the Middle East.” Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, edited by Suad Joseph, Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 3-30.

Joseph, Suad. “Introduction.” Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, edited by Suad Joseph, Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 3-30.

Kanafani, Samar. “Leaving Mother-Land: The Anti-Feminine in Fida’i Narratives.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 15, 2008, pp. 297–316.

Kandiyoti, Deniz. "Disentangling Religion and Politics: Whither Gender Equality?" IDS Bulletin 11 January 2011; 42 (1): 10-14. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2011.00195.x

Khalaf, Mona Chemali. “Male Migration and the Lebanese Family: The Impact on the Wife Left Behind.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2009, pp. 102-119.

Khater, Akram Fouad. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1860-1920. University of California Press, 2001.

Khatib, Lina. Civil Society in a Sectarian Context: The Women’s Movement in Post-War Lebanon. Dissertation, Lebanese American University, 2010.

Kikoski, Catherine. “Feminism in the Middle East: Reflections on Ethnographic Research in Lebanon.” Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, vol. 11, no. 4, 2000, pp. 131-146.

LaTeef, Nelda. Women of Lebanon: Interviews with Champions for Peace. McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997.

Lattouf, Mirna. Women, Education and Socialization: 19th and 20th Centuries Social History. University Press of America, 2004.

Majaj, Lisa Suhair, Paula W. Sunderman and Therese Saliba, editors. Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women’s Novels. Syracuse University Press, 2002. 

Meghdessian, Samira Rafidi. The Status of the Arab Woman: A Select Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1980.

Miner-Rubino, Kathi, et al. “Using Survey Research as a Quantitative Method for Feminist Social Change.” Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Sage Publications, 2007, pp. 199-222.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, Indiana UP, 1991, pp. 51-80.

Morgan, Robin, editor. Sisterhood is Global: The International Women’s Movement Anthology. Anchor Press, 1984.

Morgan, Robin, editor. Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Random House, 1970.

Mullin, Jehan Marie. Arab Kinship: The Foundation of Subordination and Empowerment Among Arab Women. Dissertation, American University of Beirut, 2005.

Pratt, Nicola. Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. University of California Press, 2020. 

Queen, Mary. "Transnational Feminist Rhetorics in a Digital World." College English, vol. 70, no. 5, 2008, pp. 471-489.

Shehade, Lamia Rustum. The Idea of Women Under Fundamentalist Islam. University Press of Florida, 2003.

Shehade, Lamia Rustum, editor. Women and War in Lebanon. University Press of Florida, 1999.

Stephan, Rita and Mounira M. Charrad, editors. Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring. New York University Press, 2020. 

Stephan, Rita. "Couple's Activism in Lebanon: The Legacy of Laure Moghaizel." Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 33, 2010, pp. 533–541.

Stowasser, Barbara. "Women's Issues in Modern Islamic Thought." Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, edited by Judith E. Tucker, Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 3-28.

Suleiman, Michael, Suad Joseph and Louise Cainkar, editors. Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal. Syracuse University Press, 2021. 

Tetreault, Mary Ann and Haya Al-Mughni. "From Subjects to Citizens: Women and the Nation in Kuwait." Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? Edited by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault, Routledge, 2000, pp. 143-163.

Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Zaatari, Zeina. Women Activists of South Lebanon. Dissertation. University of California, Davis, 2003.