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  • Iranian Romance in the Digital Age

    From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage

    Edición de Janet Afary, Jesilyn Faust ...
    Series series Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East
    Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women'srights, and the state revived many premodern social conventions throughmodern means and institutions. Customs such as the enforced veiling of women,easy divorce for men, child marriage, and polygamy were robustly reintroducedand those who did not conform to societal strictures were severely punished. Atthe same time, ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • Anthropology Matters, Third Edition

    de Shirley A. Fedorak ...
    The third edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to anthropology, and the world around it, by connecting important concepts to current global issues. A question-based approach encourages readers to understand specific issues in a broader cross-cultural context while building an appreciation for anthropology’s role in developing global citizenship.This edition has been updated and ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    de Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    de Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    de Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Afghanistan Remembers

    Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices

    de Parin Dossa ...
    Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Culture and Dignity

    Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

    de Laura Nader ...
    In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • Arab Youth

    Social Mobilisation in Times of Risk

    Edición de Samir Khalaf, Roseanne Saad Khalaf ...
    In 2011, Arab youth took to the streets in their thousands to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the uprisings, one auspicious feature stands out: they reveal the genesis of a new generation sparked by the desire for civil liberties, advocacy for human rights, and participatory democracy. This unique volume explores some of the antecedents of the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    de Laura Bier ...
    "Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Live and Die Like a Man

    Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

    de Farha Ghannam ...
    Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender inequalities are hotly debated by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Life

    The Everyday of the Arab Spring

    de Asef Bayat ...
    From a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa comes a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution.From the standpoint of revolutionary politics, the Arab Spring can seem like a wasted effort. In Tunisia, where the wave of protest began, as well as in Egypt and the Gulf, regime change never fully took hold. Yet if the Arab Spring failed to disrupt the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Islam in Turkey: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    de Ibrahim Kalin ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD