Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research

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ID4414568
AuthorsFrances S Hasso (0000-0002-5847-9806, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume31
Issue3
Pages653
Publication date2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20459056
OpenAlexW1489287067
LanguageEN
Citations received9

IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East, authentic/inauthentic, modern/traditional, resistance/abjection, secular/pious); varying perspectives on gendered selves, subjectivities, and identities, and their implications for feminist imaginings and sexuality; and challenges to reductive, ahistorical, static, and decontextualized engagements with culture and religion. My article focuses on sources written in English and dealing largely with the twentieth century and contemporary period. This is by no means an exhaustive survey of Middle East and North Africa-related gender research, but rather an invitation to enter the literature through a distinct analytical lens. My critiques and orientations are informed by my Arab American feminist subjectivity; interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary U.S. academic training and teaching; and training, research, fieldwork, and teaching in Middle East and Arab studies. I occupy an international social science position in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Oberlin College. Given the small size of our program and our pedagogical goals, however

Archaeology · Geography · Middle East · Political science · Gender Politics and Representation · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies

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