Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese ""alternative modernities"" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
By:
M. Thomas Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 4.238kg ISBN:9781137281982 ISBN 10: 1137281987 Pages: 245 Publication Date:28 December 2012 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Marie-Claude Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of Arabic at Oberlin College.
