{"product_id":"bad-girls-of-the-arab-world-hardback-9781477313350","title":"Bad Girls of the Arab World (Hardback) 9781477313350","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNadia Yaqub (Edited by), Rula Quawas (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477313350, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e[A] treasure trove of insightful accounts and research on Arab women who have been voluntarily and involuntarily speaking out after the Arab Spring in 2011. . . . The most exciting portions of this text are the glimpses into the inner workings of Arab culture. This accessible book is a must read.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003eThe collection derives its discursive strength from diverse testimonies of Arab women ranging across age, class, and education. \u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e distinguishes itself through its examination of the political and personal, private and public, intentional and imposed dichotomies that women in the Arab world must operate under as they attempt to reformulate their role in society.\u003c\/div\u003e (Middle East Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e] stands apart from the edited volume crowd. It includes, not only academic entries, but personal essays and reflections on art by their artists, all centered on the theme of transgression, or to put it in the language of \u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e itself, bad girls. And there is no one bad girl. Some bad girls of the Arab world use their linguistic and cultural heritage to empower them, some rail against them. Some ally themselves with the West, some don't think about the West and the East as binaries, but rather, apply a complicated, nuanced worldview to their universes. However, all are allotted their agency.\u003c\/div\u003e (New Books Network) \u003cdiv\u003eA most welcome contribution to the field of women's studies. It is relevant to courses that examine representations of women, post-colonial and transnational feminisms, and\/or gender in Arab-majority countries.\u003c\/div\u003e (Resources for Gender and Women's Studies) \u003cdiv\u003eThe chapters in this book are varied in style, including personal experience, academic analysis and artistic contributions; they cover different Arab countries as well as Arab women abroad, different time periods and contexts, but they all converge on disputing, directly or implicitly, Orientalist notions that the oppression of Arab women is rooted in beliefs fundamental to Islam and Arab society.\u003c\/div\u003e (Jordan Times) \u003cdiv\u003eThis academic work explores both the symbolic statements and lived experience of Arab women who transgress social norms, whether intentionally or unintentionally…The strongest chapters break free from the bonds of academic jargon and present women in their full flesh-and-blood selves, often suffering greatly for their brave actions, sometimes with bodily manifestations.\u003c\/div\u003e (Al Jadid) \u003cdiv\u003eThe chapters [in \u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e] consistently demonstrate that the consequences of being labeled bad girls are stigmatization, exclusion, and violence. But often embedded in acts of speaking about oppression are acts of resistance...The strength of Bad Girls is prevalent not only in some of its analytic essays but in its inclusion of more creative styles of writing.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen’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. \u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. The book 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, \u003ci\u003eBad Girls of the Arab World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich portrait of women’s varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Transliteration and Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Nadia Yaqub\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom (Rula Quawas)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. “\u003cbr\u003eAnd Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?”\u003cbr\u003e Love and Badness in America and the Arab World (Diya Abdo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Suspicious Bodies: Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon (Rima Najdi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. “\u003cbr\u003eJihad Jane”\u003cbr\u003e as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9\/11 (Randa A. Kayyali)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Paying for Her Father’\u003cbr\u003es Sins: Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage (Rawan W. Ibrahim)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada (Adania Shibli)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. “\u003cbr\u003eThey Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine”\u003cbr\u003e: Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring (Amal Amireh)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. “\u003cbr\u003eFuck Your Morals”\u003cbr\u003e: The Body Activism of Amina Sboui (Anne Marie E. Butler )\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial (Hanadi al-Samman)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Reel Bad Maghrebi Women (Florence Martin and Patricia CaillÉ\u003cbr\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. New Bad Girls of Sudan: Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora (Anita H. FÁ\u003cbr\u003ebos)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel (Suhair al-Tal)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword by Laila al-Atrash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword by Miral al-Tahawy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589120127256,"sku":"9781477313350","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bad-girls-of-the-arab-world-hardback-9781477313350","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}