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This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments placed before them as they simply attempt to live full human lives. The collection explores narratives of women - real and fictional - who fight against these barriers, who succumb to them, who remain unaware of them, or choose to ignore them. It explores the ways we read women in cultural production, and how women are read in society. We assert the obstacles constructed into the very fabric of societies against fifty percent of the population are unfair, be they hindrances for women to attain their goals, encumbrances that limit women's speech and societal participation - communal and artistic - or hindrances that prohibit specific behaviors and images of women.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman --- The Yellow Wallpaper --- Houswifization --- Social Reproduction --- Rachilde --- La Jongleuse --- Randa Abdel Fatah --- Does My Head Look Big in This? --- Ecuador --- Comic --- Charlotte Wood --- The Natural Way of Things --- Animal People --- Ecofeminist --- Helen Wells --- Peril over the Airport --- Maxine Hong Kingston --- No Name Woman --- Middle East --- Female Lawyers --- Geschlechterforschung --- Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung --- Anglistik --- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Yellow Wallpaper; Houswifization; Social Reproduction; Rachilde; La Jongleuse; Randa Abdel Fatah; Does My Head Look Big in This?; Ecuador; Comic; Charlotte Wood; The Natural Way of Things; Animal People; Ecofeminist; Helen Wells; Peril over the Airport; Maxine Hong Kingston; No Name Woman; Middle East; Female Lawyers; Family Law; Domestic Violence; Patriarchy; Lesotho

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A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Mohammed died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired the Prophet to appoint his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as leader. So began a schism that is nearly as old as Islam itself. Laurence Louër tells the story of this centuries-old rivalry, taking readers from the last days of Mohammed to the political and doctrinal clashes of Sunnis and Shi'a today.In a sweeping historical narrative spanning the Islamic world, Louër shows how the Sunni-Shi'a divide was never just a dispute over succession-at issue are questions about the very nature of Islamic political authority. She challenges the widespread perception of Sunnis and Shi'a as bitter enemies who are perpetually at war with each other, demonstrating how they have coexisted peacefully at various periods throughout the history of Islam. Louër traces how sectarian tensions have been enflamed or calmed depending on the political contingencies of the moment, whether to consolidate the rule of elites, assert clerical control over the state, or defy the powers that be.Timely and provocative, Sunnis and Shi'a provides needed perspective on the historical roots of today's conflicts and reveals how both branches of Islam have influenced and emulated each other in unexpected ways. This compelling and accessible book also examines the diverse regional contexts of the Sunni-Shi'a divide, examining how it has shaped societies and politics in countries such as Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, and Lebanon.

Islam --- Doctrines. --- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. --- Al-Qaeda. --- Arab Spring. --- Arab uprisings. --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Beyond Sunni and Shia. --- Danny Postel. --- Fatah. --- Frederic Wehrey. --- Gamal Nasser. --- Gaza. --- Geneive Abdo. --- Hamas. --- Hosni Mubarak. --- ISIS. --- Intefada. --- Islamists. --- Jabal Amel. --- Mohamed Morsi. --- Muhammad Qutb. --- Nader Hashemi. --- Nader Shah. --- Osama bin Laden. --- Palestinians. --- Pan-Islamism. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Sayyid Qutb. --- Sectarianization. --- September 11. --- Shah of Iran. --- The New Sectarianism. --- World Trade Center. --- caliphate. --- sectarianism. --- the Islamic State.

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Abu Dhabi --- Aden --- Afghanistan --- Algeria --- Algiers --- Amman --- Ankara --- Baghdad --- Bahrain --- Brussels --- Cairo --- Camp David --- Cyprus --- Doha --- East Berlin --- Egypt --- France --- Iran --- Iraq --- Israel --- Istanbul --- Italy --- Japan --- Jerusalem --- Jordan --- Kabul --- Kurdistan --- Kuwait --- Lebanon --- Libya --- London --- Mecca --- Mediterranean Sea --- Moscow --- Muscat --- Netherlands --- New York --- Oman --- Pakistan --- Palestine --- Paris --- People's Republic of Yemen --- Port Said --- Qatar --- Red Sea --- Riyadh --- Saudi Arabia --- Sinai Peninsula --- Soviet Union --- Sudan --- Syria --- Tehran --- Tel Aviv --- Tripoli --- Turkey --- United Kingdom --- United States --- Vienna --- Yemen Arab Republic --- Yugoslavia --- Middle East --- Arafat, Yasser --- Begin, Menachem --- Dayan, Moshe --- Given, Edward --- Hoss, Selim --- Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi --- Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini --- Sadat, Anwar --- aid; aircraft; amnesty; Arabs; army; assassination; Ba'athism; banking; boycott; Camp David Accords; commercial; communism; coup d'etat; defence; demonstration; dollar; education; electricity; energy; energy crisis; execution; export; Fatah; gas; guns; human rights; import; independence; IRA; Jewish; Kurdish; mandate; Middle East settlement; military occupation; Navy; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); nuclear power; occupied territories; OPEC; Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO); Palestinian; peace process; peace treaty; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); protest; RAF; resistance; revolt; revolution; sanctions; SAVAK; Security Council; settlement; socialism; state visit; strikes; The Six; torture; trade; training; treaty; trial; uprising; withdrawal; Zionism --- Abu Dhabi --- Aden --- Afghanistan --- Algeria --- Algiers --- Amman --- Ankara --- Baghdad --- Bahrain --- Brussels --- Cairo --- Camp David --- Cyprus --- Doha --- East Berlin --- Egypt --- France --- Iran --- Iraq --- Israel --- Istanbul --- Italy --- Japan --- Jerusalem --- Jordan --- Kabul --- Kurdistan --- Kuwait --- Lebanon --- Libya --- London --- Mecca --- Mediterranean Sea --- Moscow --- Muscat --- Netherlands --- New York --- Oman --- Pakistan --- Palestine --- Paris --- People's Republic of Yemen --- Port Said --- Qatar --- Red Sea --- Riyadh --- Saudi Arabia --- Sinai Peninsula --- Soviet Union --- Sudan --- Syria --- Tehran --- Tel Aviv --- Tripoli --- Turkey --- United Kingdom --- United States --- Vienna --- Yemen Arab Republic --- Yugoslavia --- Middle East --- Arafat, Yasser --- Begin, Menachem --- Dayan, Moshe --- Given, Edward --- Hoss, Selim --- Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi --- Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini --- Sadat, Anwar --- aid; aircraft; amnesty; Arabs; army; assassination; Ba'athism; banking; boycott; Camp David Accords; commercial; communism; coup d'etat; defence; demonstration; dollar; education; electricity; energy; energy crisis; execution; export; Fatah; gas; guns; human rights; import; independence; IRA; Jewish; Kurdish; mandate; Middle East settlement; military occupation; Navy; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); nuclear power; occupied territories; OPEC; Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO); Palestinian; peace process; peace treaty; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); protest; RAF; resistance; revolt; revolution; sanctions; SAVAK; Security Council; settlement; socialism; state visit; strikes; The Six; torture; trade; training; treaty; trial; uprising; withdrawal; Zionism

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Government liability --- Abu Dhabi --- Aden --- Afghanistan --- Algeria --- Algiers --- Amman --- Ankara --- Baghdad --- Bahrain --- Brussels --- Cairo --- Camp David --- Cyprus --- Doha --- East Berlin --- Egypt --- France --- Iran --- Iraq --- Israel --- Istanbul --- Italy --- Japan --- Jerusalem --- Jordan --- Kabul --- Kurdistan --- Kuwait --- Lebanon --- Libya --- London --- Mecca --- Mediterranean Sea --- Moscow --- Muscat --- Netherlands --- New York --- Oman --- Pakistan --- Palestine --- Paris --- People's Republic of Yemen --- Port Said --- Qatar --- Red Sea --- Riyadh --- Saudi Arabia --- Sinai Peninsula --- Soviet Union --- Sudan --- Syria --- Tehran --- Tel Aviv --- Tripoli --- Turkey --- United Kingdom --- United States --- Vienna --- Yemen Arab Republic --- Yugoslavia --- Middle East --- Arafat, Yasser --- Begin, Menachem --- Dayan, Moshe --- Given, Edward --- Hoss, Selim --- Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi --- Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini --- Sadat, Anwar --- aid; aircraft; amnesty; Arabs; army; assassination; Ba'athism; banking; boycott; Camp David Accords; commercial; communism; coup d'etat; defence; demonstration; dollar; education; electricity; energy; energy crisis; execution; export; Fatah; gas; guns; human rights; import; independence; IRA; Jewish; Kurdish; mandate; Middle East settlement; military occupation; Navy; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); nuclear power; occupied territories; OPEC; Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO); Palestinian; peace process; peace treaty; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); protest; RAF; resistance; revolt; revolution; sanctions; SAVAK; Security Council; settlement; socialism; state visit; strikes; The Six; torture; trade; training; treaty; trial; uprising; withdrawal; Zionism