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Araq el-Emir Site (Jordan)

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Public administration --- Industrial management --- Jordan --- Jordan. --- Politics and government --- Economic policy

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Foreign workers, Jordanian --- Jordanian students --- Jordan --- Emigration and immigration.

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This anthropological monograph focuses on the everyday experiences of young, highly educated women in contemporary Jordan. It carefully analyses their powerful contributions to social change as well as the strategies they employ in dealing with the problems they generally face. In their struggle to find recognition, religion (Islam and Christianity) often plays a major part and helps them to empower themselves, which is also reflected in this account. The study discusses family relationships, social networks, gender constructions, religiousness, and women's roles in various social spheres. It sheds light on how these young women actively influence transformations in their society and re-negotiate their own and other people's social position, and how they, in turn, are highly influenced (and often restricted) by the socio-cultural environment in their efforts towards change.

Middle class women --- Sex role --- Social change --- Women and religion --- Women --- Women --- Young women --- Jordan --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Jordan --- Social conditions

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In recent years there has been an attempt by activists, service providers, and feminists to think about violence against women in more inclusive ways. In Knowing What We Know, activist and sociologist Gail Garfield argues that this effort has not gone far enough and that in order to understand violence, we must take the lived experiences of African American women seriously. Doing so, she cautions, goes far beyond simply adding voices of black women to existing academic and activist discourses, but rather, requires a radical shift in our knowledge of these women’s lives and the rhetoric used to describe them. Bringing together a series of life-history interviews with nine women, this unique study urges a departure from established approaches that position women as victims of exclusively male violence. Instead, Garfield explores what happens when women’s ability to make decisions and act upon those choices comes into conflict with cultural and social constraints. Chapters explore how women experience racialized or class-based violence, how these forms of violence are related to gendered violence, and what these violations mean to a woman’s sense of identity. By showing how women maintain, sustain, and in some instances regain their sense of human worth as a result of their experiences of violation, Garfield complicates the existing dialogue on violence against women in new and important ways.

African American women --- Violence against. --- Crimes against. --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Interviews. --- Jordan, Barbara, --- Conversation --- Interviewing --- Jordan, Barbara Charline, --- African Americans --- Intellectual life. --- United States --- Civilization --- African American influences. --- African American intellectuals