Women In Lebanon

Author : M. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137281995
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Lebanon written by M. Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.

Author : Evelyn Shakir
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815608764
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember Me To Lebanon written by Evelyn Shakir and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled with Lebanese women of different ages, sometimes writing letters, often reminiscing, looking back as far as the turn of the century. In different ways, these first and second-generation women struggle with feminist issues overshadowed by the demands of dual cultures. In Young Ali a teenager tries to listen to her beloved father’s time-honored tales of males in friendship and marriage. Aggie of House Calls is a deceased matriarch who returns to haunt her family with reminders of the customs she fought to uphold while alive. Shakir’s other heroines include a thrice-divorced thirty-year-old woman quibbling with a modern matchmaker, an elderly non-Lebanese woman who spies on Muslim neighbors in the wake of 9/11, and a traditional wife and mother who thinks she has found a route out of Old World womanly duties. Many of the authors’s women grapple with reclaiming or abandoning ancestral demands, and finessing age-old male-female relationships. In Oh, Lebanon a war-haunted Lebanese-born woman willfully departs from the mores of her upbringing, with surprising results. With agile humor and emotional truth, Shakir offers multiple perspectives on Lebanese women trying to change roles in a new landscape without surrendering cultural identity.

Author : Nancy W. Jabbra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459618
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village written by Nancy W. Jabbra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village: Generations of Change, Nancy W. Jabbra presents a detailed analysis of change in gender roles in a Christian community in rural Lebanon.

Author : Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498522750
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebanese Women at the Crossroads written by Nelia Hyndman-Rizk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the end of the civil war, Lebanese women are still struggling for gender equality. This study builds on recent scholarship on women’s activism in the Arab world, in the context of the Arab Spring. It examines how discourses of secularism and equal civil rights have informed the contemporary Lebanese women’s movement in their campaigns for a domestic violence law, women’s nationality rights, a women’s quota in parliament, the reform of personal status law and the recognition of civil marriage. This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation, due to Lebanon’s plural legal system, which makes a division between religious and civil law. While both jurisdictions allocate women relational rights, guided by the logic of patrilineal descent, women’s inequality is central to the reproduction of sectarian difference and patriarchal control within the confessional political system, as a whole.

Author : Eric Verdeil
Publisher : Presses de l’Ifpo
ISBN 13 : 2351595491
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Lebanon written by Eric Verdeil and published by Presses de l’Ifpo. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, Lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. The Syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on Lebanon have increased these tensions. This atlas sheds light on these new challenges and adds new data that complete the analyses already published in the Atlas du Liban. Territoires et société (Atlas of Lebanon. Territories and Society) released in 2007 by the same research team. Some of its components are included in this edition. Beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account Lebanon’s socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues linked to uncontrolled urbanization and to natural risks, as well as conflicts due to local territorial management. This atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between French and Lebanese researchers. It uses a geographical approach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. Public sources are scarce in Lebanon, especially at the local scale. They are sometimes less reliable and difficult to access. It is particularly the case for the Lebanese census data, conversely data are abundantly available on the refugees population, which is less known than the population of refugees. International data help compare Lebanon to its neighbors. Thematic data produced by some ministries are helpful to provide a detailed view regarding specific domains. Analyses processed on aerial and satellite images have produced essential data on urbanization and environment. Local thematic fieldwork surveys have provided additional data. The book consists of seven chapters. The first one deals with the territorial state-building seen in the light of regional geopolitics, and emphasizes internal violence and the reemergence of militias and armed groups that fight each other and the state army. Lebanon is once again perceived as a territory divided between multiple allegiances. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of population dynamics, despite the lack of reliable data whose sources are subject to discussion. It includes analyses of internal population flows, the Lebanese diaspora, and the assessment of Syrian refugees’ influx. The third chapter shows the fragility of the Lebanese economic model. Its dependency on foreign investments and on...

Author : Nicola Pratt
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281764
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodying Geopolitics written by Nicola Pratt and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women’s struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects.

Author : World Trade Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lebanon Women in Culture, Business & Travel written by World Trade Press and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn M. Byerly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273240
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism written by Carolyn M. Byerly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. This text draws together the most robust data from that original study, presenting it in 29 chapters on individual nations and three additional theoretical chapters. The book is the most expansive effort to date to consider women's standing in the journalism profession across the world. Contents organize nations in relation to their progress within newsrooms, with those most advanced in gender equality representing diversity in terms of region and national development. Contributing authors are, in most cases, the original researchers for their respective nations in the Global Report study.

Author : Rita Stephan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692472279
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Line with the Divine written by Rita Stephan and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Line with the Divine": The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon supports the movement to eradicate gender-based violence in Lebanon and throughout the Arab World. This book contributes to eliminating gender inequality by documenting, analyzing, and showing ways to overcome social, legal, and familial relationships that condone violence. Strengthening women's resolve and women's empowerment to define the basis and execution of their own discourse of revitalization and activism is one important path towards that goal. In engaging and tackling Islamic modernism and secular nationalism discourses, the contributors and editors of this book advance women's rights and claim space for women's agency to become effective. This book features research on gender equality in the family (Rita Sabat), campaigns against domestic violence in Lebanon (Nicole Khoury), Laure Moghaizel's pioneering activism for women's rights (Rita Stephan), the civil marriage debate (Nelia Hyndman-Rizk), Shi'ite women in the Eastern Beqa'a Valley (Sherifa Zuhur), Lebanese women and divorce (Mireille Aprahamian), women entrepreneurs in Lebanon (Hayfaa Tlaiss), women left behind after men's migration (Stephanie Hjorth), Syrian women refugees in the Lebanese media (Rouba El Helou & Maria Bou Zeid), and Lebanese women's transnational immigrant experiences (Dalia Abdelhady). "In Line with the Divine": The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon and its editors are the first recipients of the Rita Sabat Award, which ABAAD: Resource Center for Gender Equality (Beirut, Lebanon) established in recognition of the late Dr. Sabat's contribution to gender equality, justice, and human rights. Abelian Acacemic's new Gender, Religion, & History (GRH) series publishes books that advance ambitious, challenging, creative, and yet accessible academic research on questions that are at the heart of human identity and the ability of women and men to live together in society in meaningful, enriching, and satisfying ways. One of the series' important goals is to further the study of the lives, histories, representations, contributions, and experiences of women in the Middle East and adjacent regions, throughout history and in contemporary settings.

Author : Michelle Hartman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655665
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s War Stories written by Michelle Hartman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War. As more and more histories of the war begin to circulate, few include any in-depth discussion of the multiple roles women played in wartime Lebanon. Fewer still address the essential issues of women’s work and their creative production, such as literature, performance art, and filmmaking. Developed out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their "war stories." Each of the six chapters centers on women who worked or created art during the war, revealing, in their own words, the challenges, struggles, and resistance they faced during this tumultuous period of Lebanese history.