Description: Bad Girls of the Arab World, Hardcover by Yaqub, Nadia (EDT); Quawas, Rula (EDT), ISBN 1477313354, ISBN-13 9781477313350, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK
Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women’s behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions.
The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. Th demonstrates that women’s transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women’s badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women’s varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.
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Book Title: Bad Girls of the Arab World
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Nadia Yaqub, Rula Quawas
Publication Name: Bad Girls of the Arab World
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 363 g
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
