This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of gender and sexuality. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives, approaching questions relevant to the MENA region from a variety of cultural and political contexts and (inter)disciplinary approaches. We encourage you to integrate these texts into your curricula in the coming semesters.
If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON—on any topic relevant to the region—please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, be sure to sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section.
Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia
Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present
Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion
Sally K. Gallagher, Making Do in Damascus: Navigating a Generation of Change in Family and Work
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair, editors, Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel
Akram Fouad Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East
Dina Rizk Khoury, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance
Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
Zakia Salime, Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Maaike Voorhoeve, editor, Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World