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Bad girls of the Arab world / edited by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas.
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Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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HQ1784 .B33 2017
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Women
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Arab countries
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Feminism
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Arab countries
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Women
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Arab countries
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Social conditions
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Editor
Yaqub, Nadia G.
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Quawas, Rula (Rula Butros Audeh), 1960-2017
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Summary note
"Women's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled "bad" as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women's behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions. The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women's transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women's badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women's varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Inciting critique in the feminist classroom / Rula Quawas
"And is it impossible to be good everywhere?" Love and badness in America and the Arab world / Diya Abdo
Suspicious bodies : Madame Bomba performs against death in Lebanon / Rima Najdi
"Jihad Jane" as good American patriot and bad Arab girl : the case of Nada Prouty after 9/11 / Randa A. Kayyali
Paying for her father's sins : Yasmin as a daughter of unknown lineage / Rawan W. Ibrahim
The making of bad Palestinian mothers during the second intifada / Adania Shibli
"They are not like your daughters or mine" : spectacles of bad women from the Arab spring / Amal Amireh
"Fuck your morals" : the body activism of Amina Sboui / Anne Marie E. Butler
Syrian bad girl Samar Yazbek : refusing burial / Hanadi al-Samman
Reel bad Maghrebi women / Florence Martin and Patricia Caillé
New bad girls of Sudan : women singers in the Sudanese diaspora / Anita H. Fábos
Being a revolutionary and writerly rebel / Suhair al-Tal.
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ISBN
9781477313350 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1477313354 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9781477313367 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
1477313362 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 B14
LCCN
2017009446
OCLC
974992296
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