WMS 184 Suad Joseph
Spring 2005 Gender in the Arab World: Syllabus 220 Young Hall
Mar 31 I. A. Introduction: What/Who/Where – Gender in the Arab World
B. Class Writing Project
II. Restoring Gender to Arab History
Apr 5 Guity Nashat & Judith Tucker, Women in MENA, Pre-Islamic pp 1-34
Apr 7 Guity Nashat & Judith Tucker, Women in MENA, Early Islamic pp 35-72
Apr 12 Guity Nashat & Judith Tucker, Women in MENA, 19th & 20th c pp 73-131
III. Gender, Self, Family, Friends
Apr 14 Suad Joseph Introduction pp1-20; “My Son/ Myself, My Mother/Myself” pp174-190; Jean Makdisi “Teta, Mother and I”. 25-52. In Joseph, Intimate Selving
Apr 19 Sheherazade. “My Sister Isabella” pp92-108; Najla Hamadeh, “Wives or Daughters” pp141-173. In Joseph, Intimate Selving
April 21 Film: “Four Women of Egypt”
Hoda Rashad and Magued Osman. “Nuptiality in Arab Countries: Changes and Implications.” In Hopkins. R.
April 26 Guest Lecturer: Dr. Nadia Atif, Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Suad Joseph, “Brother/Sister Relationships”. Joseph, Intimate Selving. 113-140
Soraya Altorki, “Sisterhood and Stewardship in Sister-Brother Relations in Saudi Arabia”. In Hopkins. R
IV. Masculinities/Sexualities/Bodies
Apr 28 Julie Peteet, “Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence” In Ghoussoub, Sinclair-Webb pp103-126. R
Magda al Noweihi, “Constructions of Masculinity in Two Egyptian Novels”. In Joseph, Intimate Selving. Pp 235-263.
May 3 MIDTERM EXAM
V. Femininities/Sexualities/Bodies
May 5 Azza Karam, “Veiling, Unveiling and the Meanings of ‘the Veil’. Challenging Static Symbolism”. In Thamyris. 1996. Vol 3. Pp 219-236. R.
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh. “Modernizing the Body” in Kanaaneh pp167-228 R
VI. Islam, Gender and Cultural Politics
May 10 Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, Subjects of Freedom, Piety Mov. Chaps 1 & 2
May 12 Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, Pedagogies, Ethics & Rituals. Chap 3 & 4
May 17 Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, Agency & Epilogue. Chaps 5 & Epilogue
VII. Gender and State
May 19 Suad Joseph. “Gendering Citizenship in the Middle East” In Joseph, Gender and Citizenship. pp3-30 R.
Mounira Charrad, “Becoming a Citizen. Lineage Versus Individual in Tunisia and Morocco. In Joseph, Gender and Citizenship. Pp 70-87. R.
VIII. Gender, Civil War, Resistance
May 24 Soha Bechara, Resistance pp vii - 70
May 26 Soha Bechara, Resistance pp 71-142
Film: “Everything and Nothing” Jayce Salloum docu-interview Becharra
May 26 TERM PAPER DUE
IX. Gender, Work, Globalization
May 31 Valentine Moghadam, “Women’s Livelihood and Entitlements in the Middle East: What Difference has the Neoliberal Policy Turn Made?” In Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 2005. Vol 1. Nol 1. pp. 110-146. R.
Homa Hoodfar, “Egyptian Male Migration and Urban Families Left Behind: ‘Feminization of the Egyptian Family’ or Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles? In Singerman. Pp 51-79. R.
X. Gender, Identity, Diasporas
June 2 Film: “Arab Detroit”
Nadine Naber “Ambiguous Insiders: An Investigation of Arab American Invisibility” Ethic and Racial Studies. 2000:23:1:37-61. R.
Amaney Jamal, “”Mosque Participation and Gendered Differences among Arab American Muslims.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 2005. Vol I. No. 1. pp53-78. R.
XI. Gender, Gaze and Representation
June 7 Yasmin Jiwani, “Gendering Terror: Representations of the Orientalized Body in Quebec’s Post-September 11 English-Language Press”. Critique. Critical Middle Eastern Studies. Fall 2004. 13:3:265-291. R.
Lila Abu-Lughod 2002 “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Cultural Relativism and its Others”. American Anthropologist 104: 3:p783-90. R.
FINAL EXAM WEDNESDAY JUNE 15, 4-6 PM.
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Books/Reader:
Books in Bookstore
Guity Nashat & Judith E. Tucker. Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Restoring Women to History. 1998. Bloomington: Univ. Indiana Press.
Suad Joseph, ed. Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Self, Gender and Identity. 1999. Syracuse: Syracuse U. Press.
Saba Mahmood. Politics of Piety. The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. 2005. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
Soha Bechara. Resistance. My Life for Lebanon. 2003. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press.
Reader
at Navin’s, Third St.
Books on Reserve:
Note, all the readings are in Shields library, except those which come from journal articles. Books on reserve include all the books in bookstore plus
Nicholas S. Hopkins The New Arab Family. 2003. Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol 24. No 1& 2. Cairo: American U. in Cairo Press.
Joanna Kadi, ed. Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American & Arab-Canadian Feminists. 1994. Boston: South End Press.
Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics, eds. Women and Power in the Middle East. 2001. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press.
Malek Alloula. The Colonial Harem. 1986. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
Miriam Cooke. Women Claim Islam. Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature. 2001. New York: Routledge.
Mai Ghoussoub & Emma Sinclair-Webb, eds.. Imagined Masculinities. Male Identity and Culture in the Middle East. 2000. London: Saqi Books.
Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar. 1996. Development, Change and Gender in Cairo. A View from the Household. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press.
Sherifa Zuhur, ed. Images of Enchantment. Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East. 1998. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh. Birthing the Nation. Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. 2002. Berkeley: U of California Press.
Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke, eds. Opening the Gates. A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. 1990. Bloomington: U of Indiana Press.
Elizabeth Fernea, ed. Remembering Childhood in the Middle East. Memories from a Century of Change. 2002. Austin: U of Texas Press.
Suad Joseph, ed. Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. 2000. Syracuse: Syracuse U Press.