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This Handbook provides an extraordinarily comprehensive study of Arab, Iranian, and Turkish women's occluded presence and activism from antiquity through European colonial occupations to the recent uprisings across the region. Using a decolonial and intersectional lens, 51 scholars examine the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of a region never far from international headlines. Joseph and Zaatari have pulled together an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to learn about women's education, journalism, fashion, family law, physical and mental health, new reproductive technologies, sexualities, queer sites of political organizing, political graffiti, plastic arts, literature, entertainment, acting, and music, as well as complicating our understanding of Middle Eastern women's Christian, Jewish and Islamic faith practices. Scholars examine the role of civil wars, protests, and revolutions in driving millions out of their homes, with women suffering the worst consequences, including intergenerational poverty as well as sexual and domestic violence that have sparked movements to criminalize all forms of violence against women. Highly recommended. miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University, United States A volume of stunning breadth and depth, this Handbook on Women in the Middle East will undoubtedly be an invaluable resource for scholars and students for years to come. The editors have brought together a brilliant collection of authors, providing insights into not only chronically important themes in the field, but also the cutting-edge of new research and theory on gender in the region. Lara Deeb, Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College, United States Essays in this Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East richly reward researchers and educators in gender studies of the region. They comprise a timely, insightful array of resources --- historical and legal records, archeology, epigraphy, biography, media representations, ethnography and so much more --- that narrate women who are revolutionaries and citizen-activists, symbols and actors of independence movements, poets and artists, teachers, orators, merchants, queens and saints, wives and mothers. Susan Slyomovics, co-editor Women and Power in the Middle East, United States

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Suad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. She founded the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) and co-founded its internationally recognized Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. She has edited or co-edited ten books, published over 100 articles, and is the General Editor of the highly esteemed Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Zeina Zaatari is Director of the Arab American Cultural Center and Adjunct Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research and publications focus on feminist and queer movements in the Middle East and North Africa and feminist and queer subjectivities in Lebanon. She serves as Associate Editor for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture and is co-founder and advisor to the Women Human Rights Defenders-MENA Coalition.

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