The Middle East Women's Studies Review articles from March 2003

The Middle East Women's Studies Review archives from March 2003

Revisiting popular memory and the construction of gendered identity: the story of a project.
March 22, 2003... As a mother of two children, a boy and a girl, I often found myself rephrasing, rewriting or simply changing stories I read to my children out of fairy tale books and other children's collections. I would skip or add adjectives, change the...

The antinomies of 'Feminism' and 'Islam:' the limits of a Marxist analysis.(Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Haideh Moghissi makes two simple but audacious claims in her second book (Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: the Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Zed Books, 1999): first, that contemporary Islamic feminism is an arm of Islamic...

Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, and Therese Saliba Syracuse University Press, 2002 In an impassioned introductory essay to this collection, Salma Khadra Jayyusi wonders whether women scholars living in 2050 will still...

The Tiller of Waters.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Hoda Barakat translated by Marilyn Booth American University of Cairo Press, 2001 Note: First published in Arabic in 1998 as Harith al-Miyah, Barakat's novel won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for literature in 2001. This novel is more...

Classical Poems by Arab Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Abdullah al-Udhari London: Saqi Books, 1999 Paperback, pp. 241. Classical Poems is an anthology of Arabic poetry by women from the Jahili (or pre-Islamic) to the medieval period of Islamic history (or to 1250 CE). Despite the...

Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Eleanor Abdella Doumato New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. In this fascinating book, Eleanor Doumato explores the obliteration of Saudi women from public and ritual space and asks why the situation of women in Saudi Arabia is...

Gertrude Bell: the Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Rosemary O'Brien, ed. With photographs by Gertrude Bell Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. "It's a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia." So Gertrude Bell expressed her frustrations in a letter addressed to Charles Hotham...

Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga New York: Routledge, 2001. 472 pages. This book grew out of a conference convened in 1997 at the University of California, Riverside. It contains 31 chapters, half by academics and half...

Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Sunita Mehta. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. With the collapse of the fundamentalist Taliban regime, few issues have attracted as much world interest as that of the situation of women in Afghanistan. Many books now seek to...

Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Hafizullah Emadi Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 2002. The author, a development consultant in the United States, works in a critical theoretical mode derived from Marxist social analysis. The title already states his assumption:...

"Life Lines: the Literature of Women's Human Rights".
March 22, 2003... On March 6, 2003, in celebration of International Women's Day, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) brought together four international women poets and writers for Life Lines: The Literature of Women's Human...