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One of the most alarming issues in Muslim societies appears to be gender-based violence. The violence directed at women linked to their womanhood is gender-based. It is violence intended to establish or reinforce gender hierarchies and perpetuate inequalities. Violence against women seems to be a cause and a consequence of gender perceptions. Gender-based violence affects men's and women's perceptions of each other.

This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in development, and multilingualism/multiculturalism. Experts from within the region and from outside provide both theoretical angles and case studies, drawing on fieldwork from Egypt, Oman, Palestine, Israel, Turke

1. Introduction : contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi -- 2. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut -- 3. Counter-narratives of Palestinian women : the construction of her-story and the politics of fear / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- 4. Gender, youth, and institutional support in the occupied Palestinian territories / Islah Jad -- 5. Impact of armed conflict on gender roles in Lebanon / Lamia Rustum Shehadeh -- 6. War and gender in Ba'thist Iraq / Achim Rohde -- 7. Violence against Afghan women : tradition, religion, conflict, and war / Anne E. Brodsky -- 8. Religious-based violence against women, and feminist responses : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam -- 9. Strategy in the battles over her : Islamism and secularism / Sherifa Zuhur -- 10. Reproductive health correlates of intimate partner violence in Jordan / Cari Jo Clark -- 11. Legal reforms on violence against women in Turkey : best practices / Pinar Ilkkaracan and Liz Ercevik Amado -- 12. Violence against women in Morocco : advances, contentions, and strategies to combat it / Moha Ennaji -- 13. Women and the violence of stereotypes in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi -- 14. Dismantling the discourses of war : Palestinian women filmmakers address violence / Nadia Yaqub.

"This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in development, and multilingualism/multiculturalism. Experts from within the region and from outside provide both theoretical angles and case studies, drawing on fieldwork from Egypt, Oman, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Addressing the historical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and legal issues in the region, the chapters cover five major aspects of women's agency: political agency, civil society activism, legal reform, cultural and social agencies, and religious and symbolic agencies. Bringing to light often marginalized topics and issues, the book underlines the importance of respecting specificities when judging societies and hints at possible ways of promoting the MENA region. As such, it is a valuable addition to existing literature in the field of political science, sociology, and women's studies."--Back cover

This book examines the issue of gender and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on case studies across the region, the authors examine the historical, cultural, religious, social, legal and political factors affecting the issue.

The Moroccan feminist movement has greatly feminized and democratized the public sphere in this country. An example of such a feminization is the recent 2004 Family Law reforms, which constitute the culmination of a long trajectory during which decisionmakers, political parties, and other public actors made important contributions that led to the reforms. Admittedly, the feminist movement is not the sole actor behind the new and spectacular legal reforms, but this movement acted as the major pooling force behind it. This force is attested in triggering unprecedented public debates that preceded, accompanied, and followed the new Family Law; these debates involved practically all public actors ranging from social, to economic, religious, and political actors and, along with the Family Law, shows that women's feminist ideas and associations were inserting themselves in the public sphere, changing the terms of participation in this sphere, and making women and gender issues a matter of national dialogue and contention for the first time in Morocco's history.