Arab feminisms: gender and equality in the Middle East

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Variety in Understanding Feminist Concepts and Discourse -- 1. What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms -- 2. Gender Studies in the Arab World: Reflections and Questions on the Challenges of Discourses, Locations and History -- 3. Recognition of Difference: Towards a More Effective Feminism -- 4. Research Methods and Probing Feminist Thought -- 5. From Women's Rights to Feminism: The Urgent Need for an Arab Feminist Renaissance -- 6. Feminist Discourse in the Arab Theatre -- 7. Huqouq almarʾa: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women's Movement -- 8. Femininity and Feminist Studies: Research, the Researcher and Cultural Constrictions in Lebanon -- 9. The Creative Arab Woman: Opposing the Stereotypical Image and Dismantling the Prevalent Discourse -- 10. Does Saudi Feminism Exist? -- 11. Arab Feminism - Obstacles and Possibilities: An Analytical Study of the Women's Movement in the Arab World -- 12. The Intellectual Frameworks and Theoretical Limits of Arab Feminist Thought -- 13. Feminism's Difference Problem -- 14. Feminism as Critique -- Part Two: The Crisis of Feminism in the Context of War, Civil Conflict and Military Intervention -- 15. Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) -- 16. Palestinian Feminist Organizations in the Post-Oslo Era: The Binary Nature of Feminist Discourse -- 17. Liberation Struggles: Reflections on the Palestinian Women's Movement -- 18. Indigenizing Feminist Knowledge: Palestinian Feminist Thought Between the Physics of International Power and the Theology of Racist 'Security' -- 19. The Developing Role of Colonial Feminists in Iraq -- 20. Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities.