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Apr 3, 2013 Region
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NEWTON in Focus: Thinking Through Gender and Sex

By : Anthony Alessandrini, Bassam Haddad, and Suzanne Saleeby

This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of gender and sexuality. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives, approaching questions relevant to the MENA region from a variety of cultural and political contexts and (inter)disciplinary approaches. We encourage you to integrate these texts into your curricula in the coming semesters.

If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON—on any topic relevant to the region—please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, be sure to sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section. 

Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent

Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, "Between Nationalism and Women`s Rights: The Kurdish Women`s Movement in Iraq"

Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia

Paul Amar, “Middle East Masculinity Studies: Discourses of ‘Men in Crisis,’ Industries of Gender in Revolution”

Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present

Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion

Sally K. Gallagher, Making Do in Damascus: Navigating a Generation of Change in Family and Work

Mervat F. Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A’sha Taymur

Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, editors, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North

Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940

Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair, editors, Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel

Akram Fouad Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East

Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance

Marwan M. Kraidy, “The Revolutionary Body Politic: Preliminary Thoughts on a Neglected Medium in the Arab Uprisings”

Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran

Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

Nicola Pratt, "The Gender Logics of Resistance to the `War on Terror`: Constructing Sex-Gender Difference Through the Erasure of Patriarchy in the Middle East"

Zakia Salime, Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco

Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran

Natalya Vince, “Saintly Grandmothers: Youth Reception and Reinterpretation of the National Past in Contemporary Algeria”

Maaike Voorhoeve, editor, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World
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This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of Egypt. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives and approach questions with which Egypt has grappled, not only in the wake of Tahrir, but throughout its modern existence. We encourage you to integrate these texts into your curricula in the coming semesters.

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