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Gender and Violence in the Middle East
David Ghanim
ISBN:
0-313-35995-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-313-35995-8
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0313359954
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication:
3/20/2009
List Price:
$44.95
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UK Sterling Price: £31.95
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In Stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Sociology
»
Sex & Gender Studies
Multicultural Studies
»
Middle East Studies
Women's Studies
»
Women's Issues in Politics & Law
Description:
Gender and Violence in the Middle East
argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends that the inherent violence of gender relations in the Middle East feeds the authoritarianism and political violence that plague public life in the region. In this societal sense, men as well as women may be said to be victims of the structural violence inherent in Middle Eastern gender relations. The author shows that the varieties of physical violence against women for which the Middle East is notorious—honor killings, obligatory beatings, female genital mutilation—are merely eruptions of an ethos of psychological violence and the threat of physical violence that pervades gender relations in the Middle East.
Ghanim documents and analyzes the complementary roles of both sexes in sustaining the system of violence and oppressive control that regulates gender relations in Middle Eastern societies. He reveals that women are not only victims of violence but welcome the opportunity to become perpetrators of violence in the married female life cycle of subordination followed by domination. The mother-in-law plays a crucial role in supporting the structure of patriarchal control by stoking tensions with her daughter-in-law and provoking her son to commit sanctioned violence on his wife. The author applies his deep analysis of gender and violence in the Middle East to illuminate the motivational profiles of male and female political suicidalists from the Middle East and the martyrological adulation that they are accorded in Middle Eastern societies.
Table of Contents:
Preface
One: Introduction: Internalizing Middle Eastern Violence
Part I: Modalities of Violence against Women
Two: Violence against Women in the Middle East
Three: Crime and Honor
Four: Islam, Gender and Violence
Five: Gender Alienation
Part II: Power, Violence, and Gender
Six: Gender and Power
Seven: Power and Price
Eight: Violence, Victimization and Conformity
Nine: Gender, Resistance and Subversion
Part III: Impacts of Female Power and Agency
Ten: Status and Victimization
Eleven: Patriarchy and Agency
Part IV: Patriarchal Gender Structure and Authoritarianism
Twelve: Authoritarian Family Structure
Thirteen: Gender and Authoritarian Social Contract
Fourteen: Gender and Authoritarian Politics
Fifteen: Gender, Authoritarianism and Violence
Sixteen: Conclusion: Toward Gender Reconciliation
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author:
David Ghanim
is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Middle Eastern Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He taught at the Universite du Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria, and conducted research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A native of Iraq, he holds his doctorate from the Corvinus University of Budapest.
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