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The purpose of the book is to address issues of women and knowledge that are not readily available in mainstream Western literature on the Mediterranean region. In this respect, the book underlines the wealth of ways which women use to widen the concept of knowledge and open new venues of research. As such, the Mediterranean women have helped constitute new meanings of knowledge whilst simultaneously providing a wealth of material that is now part of the knowledge archive of the Mediterranean.
List of contents
Introduction - Fatima Sadiqi Part I : Women and Written Knowledge 1 A Sceptical Cast of Mind - Marjorie Lightman 2 Women and Knowledge in Italy and Venice During the Early Modern Period: Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella - Paola Malpezzi 3 Seven Francophone Mediterranean Women Writers Speak Out Inside and Outside - Evelyne Accad 4 Moroccan Women Authors of French Expression : Feminine Voices of La Littérature Monde in the Age of Globalization - Valerie Orlando 5 The necessity of Having it Both Ways : Tradition, Modernity and Experience in the Works of Hele Beji - Debbie Barnard Part II : Women and Oral Knowledge 6 Textual Orality and Knowledge of Illiterate Women : The Textual performance of Jewish Women in Morocco - Joseph Chetrit 7 Berber Women's Oral Knowledge - Fatima Sadiqi Part III : Women, Legal, Religious and Economic Knowledge 8 Morocco's 2004 Family Code
Moudawana : Improving Access to Justice for Women - Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt 9 Women's Access to Legal Knowledge : The Case of Palestinian Women's NGOs in Israel - Liat Kozma 10 Women and Religious Knowledge : Focus on Muslim Women Preachers - Moha Ennaji 11 Women and Reproductive Knowledge in the Mediterranean - Rachel Newcomb Part IV : Women and Media Knowledge 12 Contextualising the Gender Representation in Cyprus Television - Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou 13 Gender and Political Engagement : A Role for the Media in the Malta - Carmen Sammut 14 Stepping Out : Women Bloggers in Their Discontents - Marilyn Tadros
About the author
Fatima Sadiqi is Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies and recipient of a Harvard Fellowship. Her main research interests are language, culture, and women's and gender issues in North Africa. She is currently writing a book with the provisional title
A Feminism of One's Own: Women's Empowerment in Morocco - Going Beyond Islam.
