Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East Two Hundred Years of History

by Okkenhaug, Inger Marie; Flaskerud, Ingvild

• ISBN13: 9781845201982
• ISBN10: 1845201981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-04
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Whether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women, or a combination of both, depends on time, place and circumstance. This book seeks to contextualize women's roles within their religious traditions rather than through the lens of a dominant culture. This book provides a comprehensive survey of women in Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in the Middle East during the last two centuries. The authors consider women's defined roles within these religious communities, and explore how women themselves develop and apply their own strategies within religious societies. A wide-ranging account, the essays draw on case studies from Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon since 1800.

Author Biography

Inger Marie Okkenhaug is Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway.

Ingvild Flaskerud is Lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Troms°, Norway.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud	1	(12)
1 Justice without Drama: Observations from Gaza City Sharia Court
Nahda Younis Shehada	13	(16)
2 From the Army of G-d to the Israeli Armed Forces: An Interaction between Two Cultural Models
Yohai Hakak	29	(18)
3 To Give the Boys Energy, Manliness, and Self-command in Temper: The Anglican Male Ideal and St. George's School in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40
Inger Marie Okkenhaug	47	(20)
4 Women Students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920's to the 1940's
Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski	67	(18)
5 Women's Voluntary Social Welfare Organizations in Egypt
Beth Baron	85	(18)
6 Nineteenth-century Protestant Missions and Middle-Eastern Women: An Overview
Heleen Murre-van den Berg	103	(20)
7 The Paradox of the New Islamic Woman in Turkey
Jenny B. White	123	(14)
8 Visions of Mary in the Middle East: Gender and the Power of a Symbol
Willy Jansen	137	(18)
9 An Army of Women Learning Torah
Leah Shakdiel	155	(20)
10 Stones and Stories: Engaging with Gender and Complex Emergencies
Nefissa Naguib	175	(16)
11 Tradition and Change: Afghan Women in an Era of War and Displacement
Karin Ask	191	(16)
12 Vows, Mediumship and Gender: Women's Votive Meals in Iran
Azam Torab	207	(16)
Index	223