... invisible, enabling reproduction of gender inequality. Israel Orientalism Jews race/ethnicity whiteness Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2001 . “ ‘Orientalism’ and Middle East Feminist Studies .” Feminist...

... of the restrictions women face within most Islamic communities today and demonstrates how these re- strictions are justified by the use of valid or invalid religious arguments. In six chapters, the book provides examples from a variety of Muslim countries to illustrate cases of gender inequality...

..., and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while Turkish women’s rights activists have increasingly recognized that the war against the Kurds, “like a blanket,” often...

..., there are still a few issues hindering further prog- ress. One of the key issues that has been tackled numerous times is that of gender inequality and the causes of low female participation in the active workforce. Terms like “gender imbalance” and “lack of women’s empowerment” have become attached...

... that codifications of family law, which have in- stitutionalized gender inequality, have contributed to an increase in ‘urfi and other unconventional marriage practices. ‘Urfi marriages are unregistered with the state and are often short-term and secret. They do not require parental consent...

... gender inequality and suggest that women need male protection or guardianship or should stay at home and remain in so-called safe segregated spaces, the Arab upris- ings made an important connection between arbitrary arrests, military tribunals, torture, state violence, thuggery, and the violent...

..., nonstate actors, and labor markets—are distinguished from premodern forms (the private patriarchy of household production and control of women by kin relations). They are defined and measured by gender gaps and forms of gender inequality in the economy, polity, and family, along with vulnerability...

... Union (EU), and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reports. Part of the hypothesis underwritten in these mega (UN, WB, International Monetary Fund) programs is that a gender gap is reflected by the gap caused by technology inequality known as the “digital divide.” In other words...

... today and demonstrates how these re- strictions are justified by the use of valid or invalid religious arguments. In six chapters, the book provides examples from a variety of Muslim countries to illustrate cases of gender inequality. Central to the analysis is how women of Muslim...

... is a patriarchal society based on gender inequality. Arab women act assiduously to change and improve their social status by participating in academic studies that allow them to reduce their dependence on men and simultaneously to develop professionally (Abu-Baker and Azaiza 2010). Pessate-Schubert...

... actors who want to determine their lives autonomously” (Dirik 2014 ). The PKK regards gender inequality as something that must be addressed in the party’s “Women’s Liberation Ideology” (Nurhak 2014 ). The party promotes the term jineology : “a fundamental scientific term in order to fill the gaps...

... they operate from multiple positionalities. Tensions and conflicts are organized around class inequality, racialized demographic concerns, anxieties about resources, heteronormativity, and sex-gender inequality. The essay “Who Carries the Water?,” by the artists Fatma Belkis and İz Öztat, is unique...

... by globalization and transnationalism (Göker et al. 2018 ; Saygılıgil and Berber 2020 ). Recent scholarship on Turkey includes an impressive number of studies on issues of gender inequality, gendered violence, feminist theory and grassroots movements, and LGBTI-queer cultures. Although there are significant...

... of paintings in various sizes exploring themes of birth, rebirth, and the restricting confinement of labels. The collection also included an installation: a painted gynecological examination chair from the 1970s. This piece is an attempt to dismantle the various systems of gender inequality...

... combatants organized collectively to criticize the gender inequalities enshrined by the code, speaking in the name of their militant past as “the mujahidat ,” the feminine plural of mujahid used by the state and by many who lived through the anticolonial struggle as a secularized term for soldier...

... the family as unchanging and inhibiting modernization, instead of adapting and accommodating to it in unexpected ways. Most essays in the volume show a shift toward feminist scholarship in the 1990s, focusing on gender inequality, gendered labor, and war and on migration’s effect on women and children. Each...

... the Kurdish issue. It is especially remarkable that Marshall does not acknowledge ethnic discrimination when she discusses gender inequality as more severe in the “East and South East” of Turkey (54–59), a seemingly geographic term that actually refers to Kurdish identity while denying its existence, which...

..., and May Temissany off er new insights into the political and economic chal- lenges facing modern Egyptian society. Th e rich material and prose refl ect the process of globalization sweeping Egypt, poverty, gender inequality, and women’s sexuality. While Seeds of Corruption narrates the tale...

... literature on citizenship and gender in the Arab world highlights the Timportance of women’s relationship to the state by focusing on the way state policies, laws, and institutions have produced gender inequalities that reinforce the patriarchal character of society, i.e., its privileging...

.... 10, No. 2 (Spring 2014) © 2014 152 book reviews  mn  153 ever, accord similar determination to reducing gender inequities in the Muslim Personal Status Law. Herein lay serious sources of tension and contradiction...