Orientalism and Middle East feminist studies

Feminist Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 101-113

  Abu Lughod, Lila ^a  

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EID: 0039191240     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3178451     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Marilyn Strathern, "An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology," Signs 12 (winter 1987): 276-93.
2. Some have charged that Said had relatively little to say about women and gender in his book, although he was to correct for this slightly in his 1985 article, "Orientalism Reconsidered," Race and Class 27, no. 2 (1985): 1-15, and in his Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). It must be recalled that Orientalism was published as feminist scholarship was beginning to take off in the United States and at just the same moment that the first major readers on women in the Middle East came out: Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, eds., Women in the Muslim World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), and Elizabeth Fernea and Basima Bezirgan's Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977).
3. Some have charged that Said had relatively little to say about women and gender in his book, although he was to correct for this slightly in his 1985 article, "Orientalism Reconsidered," Race and Class 27, no. 2 (1985): 1-15, and in his Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). It must be recalled that Orientalism was published as feminist scholarship was beginning to take off in the United States and at just the same moment that the first major readers on women in the Middle East came out: Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, eds., Women in the Muslim World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), and Elizabeth Fernea and Basima Bezirgan's Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977).
4. Some have charged that Said had relatively little to say about women and gender in his book, although he was to correct for this slightly in his 1985 article, "Orientalism Reconsidered," Race and Class 27, no. 2 (1985): 1-15, and in his Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). It must be recalled that Orientalism was published as feminist scholarship was beginning to take off in the United States and at just the same moment that the first major readers on women in the Middle East came out: Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, eds., Women in the Muslim World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), and Elizabeth Fernea and Basima Bezirgan's Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977).
5. Cynthia Nelson, "Old Wine in New Bottles: Reflections and Projections Concerning Research on 'Women in Middle Eastern Studies,'" in The Contemporary Study of the Arab World, ed. Earl Sullivan and Jacqueline Ismael (Edmonton, Alberta: Alberta University Press, 1991), 127-52.
6. I discuss this in "The Marriage of Islamism and Feminism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics," in my Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 243-69.
7. Soraya Altorki, "Feminist Groups in Contemporary Egypt," The Review of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies 7, no. 4 (1998): 16.
8. Lisa Taraki, Rita Giacaman, Penny Johnson, and Rema Hammami, Palestinian Women: A Status Report (Birzeit, Palestine: Women's Studies Program, Birzeit University, 1997).
9. Altorki, 16.
10. Quoted in Altorki, 16.
11. See Hoda Elsadda, Somaya Ramadan, and Amina Abu-Bakr, eds., Women's Time and Alternative Memory (Zaman al-nisa' w al-dhakira al-badila) (Cairo: Women and Memory Forum, 1998).
12. The New Woman Research and Study Center has many projects besides this one on violence against women. For example, they commissioned and published, in Arabic and English, a comparative study, The Feminist Movement in the Arab World: Intervention and Studies from Four Countries (Cairo: Dar El-Mostaqbal Al Arabi, 1996).