Problems and promise in Middle East and North Africa gender research.(feminist studies) From: Feminist Studies | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Hasso, Frances S. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Feminist Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East, authentic/inauthentic, modern/traditional, resistance/abjection, secular/pious); varying perspectives on gendered selves, subjectivities, and identities, and their implications for feminist imaginings and sexuality; and challenges to reductive, ...