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This volume explores the political & cultural dimensions of citizenship & their relevance to women & gender. Containing essays by leading scholars such as Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, it examines the conceptual issues & strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status

The fact that women have assumed responsibility for solving the waste problem in the Federal Republic of Germany suggests that a fundamental restructuring of the German political economy is underway. Further, the topicality of issues affecting women, especially in terms of the nexus between paid production in the marketplace & nonpaid production in the home, suggests that a fundamental restructuring of German sex roles is also occurring. Assessed is the impact of these two trends on cultural ideas about social labor & political activism. M. Maguire

Author of Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (1984), Noddings (Education/Stanford) offers here a provocative definition of evil from women's perspective, contrasts it with our society's traditional male-oriented view, and points out ways in which an acceptance of the presence of evil in all of us could help correct some pervasive injustices. Noddings claims that Western civilization's separation of good and evil into two entities (God and Satan), the result of men's need to explain the presence of evil in the face of an all-powerful, loving Father, marked the beginning o

When discussing women and the law in the Arab World, it is imperative to remember that in most of these countries, unlike western countries, a Personal Status Code rather than civil codes legislates the rights and duties of women.

Women and writing was the focus of the 1995-96 yearly publication of the Lebanese Association of Women researchers, known as "A l-Bahithat. " Reading this publication is a requirement for anyone interested in Arab women writers in particular or the subject of women 's writing in general. Why do women write? How do women write? Is there a typically "feminine writing" as opposed to a "masculine" one? These are a few of the questions raised by the contributors. More general questions are also considered: What do women write about? Who are the women writing in Lebanon today?

This special issue of al-raida on Women and Photography addresses photography as a medium that challenges gender roles, positions, and attributes as seen in the mainstream media. It includes papers by contributors who examine the practice of women photographers in the Middle East as well as the different ways women are represented in photographs from a variety of perspectives that range from critical art disciplines to the social sciences.

The Lebanese American University, Byblos campus in collaboration with the Institute for Women's Studi es in the Arab World (IWSAW) held a panel discussion dealing with women and di sability.