Arab and Islamic Feminisms Bibliography

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Arab and Islamic Feminisms Bibliography

Abdulhadi, Rabab, Nadine Naber, and Evelyn Alsultany, eds. Gender, Nation, and Belonging: Arab and Arab-American Feminist Perspectives. MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (special issue), vol. 5 (Spring 2005).

Abou-Bakr, Omaima. “Islamic Feminism? What’s in a Name?” AMEWS Newsletter, 2001.

Abouzeid, Leila. Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey toward Independence. Translated by Barbara Parmenter. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press, 1989.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. “On- and Off-Camera in Egyptian Soap Operas: Women, Television, and the Public Sphere.” In On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, 17-35. NY: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.

------. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104, no. 3 (2002): 783-790.

------, ed. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

------. “Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions.” In Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 3-31. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

------. “The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism.” In Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 243-269. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Afary, Janet, and Kevin Anderson. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Afsaruddin, Asma, ed. Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female ‘Public’ Space in Islamic/ate Societies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, ed. Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2005.

Ahmed, Leila. A Border Passage. NY: Penguin Books, 1999.

------. A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011.

------. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

------. “Western Ethnocentrism and Perceptions of the Harem.” Feminist Studies 8, no. 3 (1982): 521-34.

Al-Ali, Nadje.Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present. London: Zed, 2007.

------. Secularism, Gender, and the State in the Middle East: the Egyptian Women’s Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

------.“’We Are Not Feminists!’ Egyptian Women Activists on Feminism,” in Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt, edited by Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse, 337-358. London: Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Al-Ali, Nadje and Nicola Pratt. What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

------, eds. Women and War in the Middle East. London: Zed Books, 2009.

Al-Nakib, Mai. “Disjunctive Synthesis: Deleuze and Arab Feminism.” Signs 38, no. 2 (2013): 459-482.

Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11. NY: New York University Press, 2012.

Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women and the New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Cairo: AUC Press, 2000.

Amir-Ebrahimi, Masserat. “Transgression in Narration: The Lives of Iranian Women in Cyberspace.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 4, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 89-115.

Ameri, Anan. “Conflict in Peace: Challenges Confronting the Palestinian Women’s Movement,” in Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female “Public” Space in Islamic/ate Societies, edited by Asma Afsarudin, 29-54. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women, The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Translated by Samiha Peterson. 1899. Reprint, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1992.

Amireh, Amal. “Framing Nawal El Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26, no. 1 (2000): 215-249.

Anwar, Zainah. “Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Women’s Rights,” in On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, 233-247. NY: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.

Babayan, Kathryn, and Afsaneh Najmabadi. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire. With contributions by Dina Al-Kassim, Sahar Amer, Brad Epps, Frédéric Lagrange, Leyla Rouhi, Everett K. Rowson, and Valerie Traub. Cambridge, MA: University of Harvard Press, 2008.

Badran, Margot. “Islamic Feminism: What’s In A Name?” Al-Ahram Weekly Online, January 17-23, 2002,

------.“Toward Islamic Feminisms,” in Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies, edited by Asma Afsaruddin, 159-188. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

------. Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Badran, Margot and Miriam Cooke, eds.Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Barlas, Asma. 'Believing Women' in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Basarudin, Azza, and Khanum Shaikh. “On Occupation and Resistance: Two Iraqi Women Speak Out,” in Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality, edited by Sarah Husain, 30-39. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006.

Bayour, Elham. “Occupied Territories, Resisting Women: Palestinian Women Political Prisoners,” in Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex, edited by Julia Sudbury, 201-214. NY: Routledge, 2005.

Brown, Wendy. “The Impossibility of Women’s Studies,” in Women’s Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 17-38. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Cooke, Miriam. Women Claim Islam.New York: Routledge, 2001.

Deeb, Lara. An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Djebar, Assia. Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager. NY: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2005.

------. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1993.

Eisenstein, Zillah.Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race, and War in Imperial Democracy. London: Zed, 2007.

El-Haddad, Laila.Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2010.

El-Saadawi, Nawal.Woman at Point Zero.Translated by Sherif Hetata. 1975. Reprint, London: Zed Books, 1983.

Enloe, Cynthia. Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Eskandani, Shadi. “The Letter,” in Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality, edited by Sarah Husain, 100-106. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006.

Fanon, Frantz. “Algeria Unveiled.”In A Dying Colonialism. Translated by Haakon Chevalier, 35-67. NY: Grove Press, 1965.

Freedman, Jane.“The Headscarf Debate: Muslim Women in Europe and the ‘War on Terror,’” in (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics, edited by Krista Hunt and Kim Rygiel, 169-189. NY: Ashgate, 2006.

Ghoussoub, Mai.Leaving Beirut: Women and the Wars Within. London: Saqi Books, 1998.

Göle, Nilüfer. The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Haddad, Yvonne and John Esposito, eds. Islam, Gender, and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hale, Sondra. Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

------. “Alienation and Belonging--Women's Citizenship and Emancipation: Visions for Sudan's Post-Islamist Future.” New Political Science 23, no. 1 (2001): 25-43.

al-Hibri, Azizah. “An Introduction to Muslim Women’s Rights,” in Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America, edited by Gisela Webb, 51-71. NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Huq, Chaumtoli. “Violence, Revolution, and Terrorism: A Legal and Historical Perspective,” in Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality, edited by Sarah Husain, 116-120. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006.

Jarmakani, Amira. "Belly Dancing for Liberation,” in Arabs in Americas: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Arab Diaspora, edited by Darcy Zabel, 145-168. New York: Peter Lang Press, 2006.

------. Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. NY: Palgrave, 2008.

------. ’The Sheik Who Loved Me’: Romancing the War on Terror.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35, no. 4 (2010): 993-1017.

Jarrar, Randa. A Map of Home.NY: Other Press, 2008.

Kadi, Joanna, ed. Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab American and Arab Canadian Feminists. Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Kahf, Mohja. "Packing 'Huda': Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the United States Reception Environment," in Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers, edited by Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj, 148-172. NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.

------. Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagent to Odalisque. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Kandiyoti, Deniz. “Contemporary Feminist Scholarship and Middle East Studies,” in Gendering the Middle East, edited by Deniz Kandiyoti. 1-27. NY: Syracuse U. Press, 1996.

Khan, Shahnaz.Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000.

Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq.Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims. Oxford: Oneworld, 2010.

------. “Sexuality, Diversity, and Ethics in the Agenda of Progressive Muslims,” in Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, edited by Safi Omid, 190-234. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2003.

Lazreg, Marnia. The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question. NY: Routledge, 1994.

Lewis, Reina, and Nancy Micklewright, eds. Gender, Modernity, and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women’s Writings – A Critical Sourcebook. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Lorentzen, Lois Ann, and Jennifer Turpin, eds. The Women and War Reader. NY: New York University Press, 1998.

Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

------. “Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject,” in On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, edited by Fereshtah Nouraie-Simone, 111-152. NY: The Feminist Press, 2005.

Majid, Anouar. “The Politics of Feminism in Islam,” in Gender, Politics, and Islam, edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard, 53-93. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa.Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Massad, Joseph. “Sin, Crimes and Disease: Taxonomies of Desires Present.” In Desiring Arabs, 191-268.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Mernissi, Fatima. Scheherezade Goes West. NY: Washington Square Press, 2001.

------.The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam. Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland. NY: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991.

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba.Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Moallem, Minoo. “Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism.” In Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and Patriarchy in Iran, 155-184. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Moghadam, Valentine. “Algerian Women in Movement: Three Waves of Feminist Activism,” in Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights, edited by Debra Bergoffen, et al, 180-199. NY: Routledge, 2011.

------.“Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents,” in Gender, Politics, and Islam, edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard, 15-51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Naber, Nadine. Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. NY: New York University Press, 2012.

------. “A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color,” in Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology, edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, 74-78.Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006.

Naghibi, Nima. “Diasporic Disclosures: Social Networking, Neda, and the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections.” Biography 34, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 56-69.

------. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Najjar, Orayb. “Still ‘A Difficult Journey Up the Mountain’? Palestinian Women’s National versus Gender Politics 1919-2002,” in Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World, edited by M. Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, and Mab Segrest. Fort Bragg, CA: EdgeWork Books, 2003.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. “Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections,” in Women’s Studies on the Edge, edited by Joan Wallach Scott, 69-80. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

------. “(Un)Veiling Feminism,” in Secularisms, edited by Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pelligrini, 39-57. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

------. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Nouraie-Simone, ed. On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era. NY: The Feminist Press at City University of New York Press, 2005.

Oliver, Kelly. Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. NY: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Petchesky, Rosalind P. “Phantom Towers: Feminist Reflections on the Battle Between Global Capitalism and Fundamentalist Terrorism,” in Terror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out, edited by Ammu Joseph and Kalpana Sharma, 52-68. London: Zed, 2003.

Peteet, Julie. “Icons and Militants: Mothering in the Danger Zone,” inGender, Politics, and Islam, edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard, 133-160. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Puar, Jasbir.“Israel’s Gay Propaganda War.” The Guardian, July 01, 2010,

------. “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages.” Social Text 84-85 23, nos. 3-4. (2005): 121-139.

------. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

Puar, Jasbir, and Amit Rai. “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots.” Social Text 72 20, no. 3. (2002): 117-148.

Riley, Robin. “Valiant, Vicious, or Virtuous: Representation and the Problem of Women Warriors,” in Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War, edited by Robin Riley and Naeem Inayatullah. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Riley, Robin, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, eds. Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. London: Zed Books, 2008.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh.Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion. London, Zed Books, 2007.

Saktanber, Ayse. “Women and the Iconography of Fear: Islamization in Post-Islamist Turkey.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society32, no. 1 (Autumn 2006): 21-31.

Saliba, Therese. “Arab Feminism at the Millenium.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 25, no. 4 (2000): 1087-1092.

Saliba, Therese, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard, eds. Gender, Politics, and

Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Shaikh, Sa’diyya.Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn ‘Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

------. “Transforming Feminism: Islam, Women and Gender Justice,” in Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism, edited by Safi Omid, 147-162. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2003.

Sharoni, Simona. Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance. NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Shohat, Ella. “Area Studies, Transnationalism, and the Feminist Production of Knowledge.” Signs: Journal of Culture and Society 26, no. 4 (2001): 1269-1272.

------. “Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of Cinema,” inVisions of the East: Orientalism in Film, edited by Mathhew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, 19-66. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Stowasser, Barbara. Women in the Qur’an, Traditions, and Interpretation.NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Strum. Philippa. The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992.

Sullivan, Zohreh T. “Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern?: Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran,” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, 215-242. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Torab, Azam. Performing Islam: Gender and Ritual on Iran. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Transnational Feminists. “Transnational Feminist Practices against War,” inTerror, Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out, edited by Ammu Joseph and Kalpana Sharma, 266-272. London: Zed, 2003.

Varzi, Roxanne. Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-revolution Iran. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Wadud, Amina. Inside the Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.

------.Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Waller, Marguerite, and Jennifer Rycenga, eds. Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance. NY: Garland, 2000.

Young, Elise. Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. NY: Teachers College Press, 1992.