The I.B. Tauris Handbook to Gendering the Cultural Histories of the - Modern Arab Worl

In the last 20 years, feminist scholars have radicalised the historiography of the Arab world. Using gendered theorisations, they have rejected the mainstream histories that prioritise ''official'' narratives, and they have highlighted the exclusionary effect of patriarchal systems and discourses. This handbook continues their work by using ''gender'' as a mode of analysis to produce a new cultural history of the Arab world. In doing so, it presents a new generation with ways to study the region using a ''gender lens'' and establishes this approach as a field. The five thematic parts correspond to specific areas focused on by new cultural historians: histories of practices; histories of representations; narrative sites of memory; histories of material culture; and histories of the body. Each section then provides new knowledge of the Arab world by moving away from the Western colonial gaze and focusing instead on women''s everyday experiences and lifeways. Subjects covered include: theoretical perspectives, Islamic law, protest movements and popular culture, as well as women''s autobiographies, gendered memory, food, public health and sexualities. Edited by two pioneering feminist scholars, Hoda Elsadda and Seteney Shami, it draws together the most innovative work of other feminist scholars from across history, anthropology, literature, sociology, psychology, theology, economics, political science, law, and translation studies. The chapters demonstrate that in using gender as a category of analysis, the cultural histories of the Arab world can be rewritten to prioritise lived realities and female voices and perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Hoda Elsadda, Seteney Shami
• Assisted by: Hoda Elsadda (Editor), Seteney Shami (Editor), Shami Seteney (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9780755648252
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4825-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: I B Tauris Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Social and cultural history, Arabian Peninsula, Sociology & anthropology, Gender studies: women, North Africa, Gender studies: women and girls, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Political, Socio-Economic & Strategic Groupings, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas, Arab world / Arab League