Preface I / Suad Joseph -- Preface II / Michael W. Suleiman -- Tribute to Michael W. Suleiman / Suad Joseph -- Arab American Women: Intersectional Genealogies and Trajectories / Suad Joseph -- A Brief History of Arab American Women, 1890s to World War II / Michael W. Suleiman -- Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women's Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area, 1880-1930 / Jess Bier -- "Keeping Us Lebanese": The Role of Unmarried Daughters of Ottoman-Era Lebanese Immigrants in New England / Amy E. Rowe -- Rose and the Four Sisters of Fate (Part II) / Gregory Orfalea -- An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880-1935 / Charlotte Karem Albrecht -- From Lebanon to Louisiana: 'Afifa Karam and Arab Women's Writing in the Diaspora / Sarah M. A. Gualtieri -- Transfigurations: Homespace in Two Arab American Women's Novels / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Scheherazade and the Limits of Inclusive Politics in Arab American Literature / Mejdulene Shomali -- Second-Wave Arab American Feminist Activism: The Story of the Feminist Arab-American Network / Carol Haddad -- Daughters of Fatima: Iraqi Shi'a Women in the United States / Bridget Blomfield -- An Anti-Imperialist Transnational Approach to Middle East Women's Studies / Nadine Naber -- Forging Her Own Path: An Interview with Scholar-Activist Elaine Hagopian / Umayyah Cable -- Arab America Gender Representations in the New York Times: 1851-1919 / Suad Joseph -- Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman after 9/11 / Evelyn Alsultany -- "Desert" Is Just Another Word for Freedom / Amira Jarmakani -- Ethnic Citizenship in a Time of Crisis: Lebanese American Women in the War of 2006 / Rita Stephan -- Dangerous Women/Women in Danger: Gendered Impacts of Hate and Repression, 9/11 and Beyond / Louise Cainkar -- Gendering the Security State: Family and Community Impacts of Arab Detentions in the Northwest United States / Therese Saliba.
Summary:
"This rigorous, multidisciplinary volume on Arab American women includes contributions from scholars and activists in in a diverse array of fields, including history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, women and gender studies, and creative writing"-- Provided by publisher. "Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists." -- Publisher's description
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