Women and power in the Middle East / edited by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics.

1.Women's activism in the Middle East: a historical perspective / Sarah Graham-Brown -- Women and politics in the Middle East / Suad Joseph -- Women and work in the Arab world / Nadia Hijab -- The politics of gender and conundrums of citizenship / Deniz Kandiyoti -- State and gender in the Maghrib / Mounira M. Charrad -- Sex, lies, and television: Algerian and Moroccan caricatures of the Gulf War / Susan Slyomovics -- An interview with Heba Raʼuf Ezzat / Karim El-Gawhary -- Women on women: television feminism and village lives / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Sudanese women and the Islamist state / Ellen Gruenbaum -- For the common good? Gender and social citizenship in Palestine / Rita Giacaman ; Isla Jad ; Penny Johnson -- Women and the Palestinian movement: no going back? / Jullie Peteet -- Searching for strategies: the Palestinian women's movement in the new era / Rita Giacaman ; Penny Johnson -- Gender and citizenship: considerations on the Turkish experience / Yesi̧m Arat -- Women in Saudi Arabia: between breadwinner and domestic icon? / Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- Women's organizations in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- The dialectics of fashion: gender and politics in Yemen / Sheila Carapico -- The political economy of female employment in postrevolutionary Iran / Fatemeh Eteman Moghadam