Middle East Studies: Women and Gender

A sensitive exploration of the meaning of women's veiling and its relationship to piety among today's Muslim women.

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 37 (2011), pp. 417-437

Published annually by the World Economic Forum, this report compares countries on the basis of chiefly economic indicators, such as labor force participation, income and wages, but also compares political participation, health indicators, and educational attainment.

This web site is part of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University

A classic book of second-wave feminism by a Moroccan author, originally published in 1987.

Published by Duke University Press and managed by the Middle East Women's Studies Association, a key scholarly resource.