Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East

<p>The <i>Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East </i>provides an overview of the key historical social economic political religious and cultural issues which have shaped the conditions and status of women in the region.</p><p>The book is divided into eleven thematic sections providing a comprehensive guide to understanding the current and historical contexts of women in the Middle East each giving ground-breaking insights into various aspects of women’s movements:</p><ul> <li>The importance of historical context including pre-Islamic through post-colonial histories</li> <li>The importance of politics and the state in understanding women in the ME</li> <li>Women’s roles in political and social movements</li> <li>The impacts of the formal and informal economies and education on women of the region</li> <li>Women’s spaces and the creation of publics and counterpublics</li> <li>The effects of war displacement and other forms of gendered violence</li> <li>Women family and the state</li> <li>Discourses and practices of religion</li> <li>Women and health practices</li> <li>Bodies and sexualities</li> <li>Women and sites of cultural production</li> </ul><p>A unique overview of cutting-edge research in the key arenas of pre-Islamic to post-colonial histories this <i>Handbook </i>will affect the way future generations of scholars engage with and add to the vast repository of socio-political studies of the Middle East. It will thus be of interest to researchers in gender studies women’s studies pre-Islamic and post-colonial studies feminist studies and socio-political and socio-economic studies.</p>