History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East: From Orientalism to the Arab Spring

This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying the various ways in which gender has defined the region and shaped relations in the modern era.

Author: Lisa Pollard,Mona L. Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/20/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781138800601

About the Author

Lisa Pollard is Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is co-editor of Families of a New World (2001) and author of Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt (2005). Additional publications include "From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the 'House of Egypt'" (2010) and "Teaching Muslim Women's History between Timeless-ness and Change: 18 Parts of Desire" (2014).

Mona L. Russell is an Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University. She is the author of Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922 (2004) and Egypt: Middle East in Focus (2013). She has published widely on gender, education and consumerism, most recently, The New Woman, Her New Clothes, and Her Education: Missionary Encounters and Consuming the Exotic (2021) and Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women (2021).

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