Gender and violence in the Middle East / 
edited by Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi 
 - New York, NY :  Routledge,  2011 
 - xvii, 279 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - UCLA center for Middle East development (CMED) ;  4 .
 - UCLA center for Middle East development (CMED) ;  4 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction: contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi -- Conceptualization and theoretical background. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut -- Armed conflict and gender-based violence. Counter-narratives of Palestinian women : the construction of her-story and the politics of fear / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian ; Gender, youth and institutional support in the occupied Palestinian territories / Islah Jad ; Impact of armed conflict on gender roles in Lebanon / Lamia Rustum Shehadeh -- Politics, war, and violence against women in Iraq and Afghanistan. War and gender in Bathist Iraq / Achim Rohde ; Violence against Afghan women : tradition, religion, conflict, and war / Anne E. Brodsky -- Religious and social violence against women. Religious-based violence against women, and feminist responses : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam ; Strategy in the battles over her : Islamism and secularism / Sherifa Zuhur ; Reproductive health correlates of intimate partner violence in Jordan / Cari Jo Clark -- Gender-based discrimination and legal reform. Legal reforms on violence against women in Turkey : best practices / Pinar Ilkkaracan and Liz Ercevik Amado ; Violence against women in Morocco : advances, contentions, and strategies to combat it / Moha Ennaji -- Language, sexual harassment and media. Women and the violence of stereotypes in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi ; Dismantling the discourses of war : Palestinian women filmmakers address violence / Nadia Yaqub 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415594103 0415594103 9780415594110 (pbk.) 0415594111 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Violence against--Middle East<br/>Women--Violence against--Africa, North<br/>Sex discrimination against men--Middle East<br/>Sex discrimination against men--Africa, North<br/>Patriarchy--Middle East