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Gulf Women’s Lives
Voice, Space, Place
Language
EnglishAbstract
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how women in the Gulf construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist within public and private spaces, and how voice and agency are part of their conversations in various spheres. In the process, the book engages readers in theoretical reflections and conversations with literary works, media, the law, disability studies, and oral narratives from the Gulf.
This timely volume fills in a serious gap in research and contributes to countering stereotypes and prejudices about Muslim and Arab women, specifically those located in the Arabian Gulf. The chapters gathered here challenge narratives of submissiveness, powerlessness, and victimization in order to uncover women’s social, cultural, and political contributions in their countries of origin or residence.
The editors and contributors are specialists of the area, with the majority of them being from the Gulf. They include scholars and students, practitioners and entrepreneurs, all writing from a position of insight that stems from long-term engagement with the region. This offers a wide range of voices and perspectives that enrich the volume with a variety of topics, methodologies, and formats. This multidisciplinarity makes for the book’s broad appeal to the general reading public as well as specialists, practitioners, members of the press and civil society, as well as policymakers. This volume will also be a valuable resource to international audiences with an interest in the region.
Keywords
Arabian Gulf;Persian Gulf;dissent;Middle Eastern studies;oral narrative;Gulf literature;Gulf women's life narrative;Gulf women’s petitions;Divorce in Gulf countries;Women from the falaj oases;Gulf women’s narratives;Women in Gulf media;Gulf women’s politics;Intersectional feminism in the Arabian Gulf;Gulf women and disability;Storytelling and agency in the Gulf;Gulf women’s literature;Gulf societiesDOI
10.47788/OIJE8138ISBN
9781804131084, 9781804131091, 9781804131077Publisher
University of Exeter PressPublisher website
https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
Exeter, 2024Classification
Gender studies: women and girls
Cultural studies: customs and traditions