HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Islamic & Middle East Stud.

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Liat Kozma

Coordinator Email: liat.kozma@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Sunday, 2-3; Wednesday, 4-5

Teaching Staff:
Prof Liat Kozma

Course/Module description:
The course will examine transformation in the status of women in the modern Middle East, as well as historiographical developments in the study of women and gender over the last two decades. We shall examine how gender as analytical category has influenced our understanding women’s lives in the region and ask whether feminist theories can be applied to the study of women in the Middle East. In addition, we shall deal with questions of sexuality, work, legal status and the influence of processes such as colonialism, national struggle and globalization on women in the Middle East.

Course/Module aims:
Acquiring knowledge of resent scholarship on women and gender in the Middle East, and the variety of sources and methodologies used by historians in the field.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Conduct historical research of women and gender in the Middle East

Attendance requirements(%):
90%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Class discussion of the readings

Course/Module Content:
1. Methodology and historiography
2. Women and labor
3. Gender and medicine
4. History of violence
5. Gender identities
6. Prostitution and traffic in women
7. Women's writing and activism

Required Reading:
Tucker, Judith E. "Problems in the Historiography of Women in the Middle East: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 15, no. 3 (1983): 321-36.
רות רודד ונוגה אפרתי, "דבר העורכות: התפתחות חקר נשים ומגדר במזרח התיכון: תמונת מצב", נשים ומגדר במזרח התיכון במאה העשרים. ירושלים: מגנס, 2008.
Dror Ze’evi (1998) “The Use of Ottoman Shari`a Court Records as a Source for Middle Eastern Social History: A Reappraisal,” Islamic Law and Society (January 1998), pp. 35-57
Nova Robinson, “Digitizing Women’s and Gender History,” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 213-216.

Ghabrial, Sarah. 2015. “The Traumas and Truths of the Body: Medical Evidence and Divorce in Colonial Algerian Courts, 1870-1930.” JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 11 (iii): 283–305.
לסלי פ. פּירס - הדילמה של פאטמה: פשעים על רקע מיני ותרבות משפטית בבית משפט עוסמאני בראשית העידן המודרני, ג'מאעה 11 (2014), 155-123.

אמנון כהן, אלישבע בן שמעון-פיקאלי ואייל ג’יניאו, יהודים בבית המשפט המוסלמי, חברה, כלכלה וארגון קהילתי בירושלים העות’מאנית: המאה התשע-עשרה. ירושלים : יד יצחק בן-צבי, 2003: 607-585.

Melman, Billie. Women’s Orients :‎ English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918 : Sexuality, Religion and Work. Basingstoke :‎ Macmillan,‎ 1995, 1-22.
Edward William Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. New York: Castido books, 2010, 159-193.

Ceyda Karamursel. "The Uncertainties of Freedom: The Second Constitutional Era and the End of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire." Journal of Women's History 28, no. 3 (2016): 138-161.
Troutt Powell, Eve M. Tell this in my memory : stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire. California: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Abisaab, Malek Hassan. ""Unruly" Factory Women in Lebanon: Contesting French Colonialism and the National State, 1940-1946." Journal of Women's History 16, no. 3 (2004): 55-82.
Balsoy, Gülhan. 2009. “Gendering Ottoman Labor History: The Cibali Régie Factory in the Early Twentieth Century.” International Review of Social History 54 (December): 45–68.

Maksudyan, Nazan. 2008. “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Journal of Historical Sociology 21 (4): 488–512.
אסף לחובסקי, "שפחות, כלות ופועלות: ילדות ארץ ישראליות ומחוקקים בריטיים בתקופת המנדט", חוקה אחת ומשפט אחד לאיש ולאשה: נשים, זכויות ומשפט בתקופת המנדט. בעריכת אייל כתבן, מרגלית שילה, רות הלפרין-קדרי (רמת גן: הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, 2010), עמ' 404-375.

Abugideiri, Hibba. 2004. “The Scientisation of Culture: Colonial Medicine’s Construction of Egyptian Womanhood, 1893–1929.” Gender & History 16 (1): 83–98.
Fahmy, Khaled. 1998. “Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” In Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Ed. Lila Abu-Lughod, 35–72. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.

Ze’evi, Dror. 2005. “Hiding Sexuality: The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East.” Social Analysis 49 (ii): 34–53.
Kozma, Liat. 2013. “‘We, the Sexologists . . .’: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879-1943.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 22 (3): 426–45.

Aykut, Ebru. 2016. “Toxic Murder, Female Poisoners, and the Question of Agency at the Late Ottoman Law Courts, 1840-1908.” Journal of Women’s History 28 (3): 114–37.
Balsoy, Gülhan. 2014. “Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society.” Middle Eastern Studies 50 (6): 976–91.

Altınay, Ayşe Gül. 2013. “Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey.” Homme: Zeitschrift Für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 24 (2): 73–89.
Watenpough, Keith David. “Are There Any Children for Sale?”: Genocide andthe Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922). Journal of Human Rights 12 (2013) :283–295.

Balslev, Sivan. 2014. “Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900-40.” Gender & History 26 (3): 545–64.
Jacob, Wilson Chacko. 2010. “Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt,” Gender & History 22 (3): 658–76.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 2001. “Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran.” Iranian Studies 34 (1–4): 89–102.
יעל שגב, "הקוצ'ק במרחבים העירוניים של איסטנבול עד ראשית המאה העשרים", זמנים 131 (2015).

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. 2011. “Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith: Transgender/Sexuality in Contemporary Iran.” Social Research 78 (2): 533–56.
גיל אנגלשטיין, "כבר נמאס לי להתחפש, רציתי להיות": מרחב, זהות והתנגדות בסיפורי חיים של נשים טרנסג׳נדריות בישראל," זמנים 131 (2015).

Hammad, Hanan. 2011. “Between Egyptian ‘National Purity’ and ‘Local Flexibility’: Prostitution in Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra in the First Half of the 20Th Century.” Journal of Social History 44 (3): 751–83.
Pastor de María Campos, Camila. 2017. “Performers or Prostitutes? Artistes during the French Mandate over Syria and Lebanon, 1921-1946.” JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 13 (ii): 287–311.

Acar, Kezban. 2017. “Procuring and Trafficking in Women in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Turcica 48: 271–99.
Liat Kozma. "Women’s Migration for Prostitution in the interwar Middle East and North Africa." Journal of Women's History 28, no. 3 (2016): 93-113.

Chaumont, Jean-Michel, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Paul Servais (eds.), Trafficking in Women 1924-1926: The Paul Kinsie Reports for the League of Nations (Geneva: United Nations Publications, 2017), 279-330.

אורית בשקין, ליאת קוזמא וישראל גרשוני (עורכים). לפסל תרבות במצרים: תכנון תרבותי, זהות לאומית ושינוי חברתי במצרים, 1939-1890. תל אביב: רמות, 2000. פרק ראשון: קאסם אמין, 94-61.

Zachs, Fruma, and Sharon Halevi. 2009. “From Difā’ Al-Nisā’ to Mas’Alat Al-Nisā’ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858-1900.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (4): 615–633
Baron, Beth. The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

נאוואל אל סאדאווי, זיכרונותיה של אישה רופאה. תרגום: לאה ששקו. תל אביב : גוונים, תש"ס 2000, פרקים נבחרים.

van Os, Nicole A.N.M. . "“They can breathe freely now”: The International Council of Women and Ottoman Muslim Women (1893–1920s)." Journal of Women's History 28, no. 3 (2016): 17-40.
Robinson, Nova. “‘Sisters of Men’: Syrian and Lebanese Women’s Transnational Campaigns for Arab Independence and Women’s Rights, 1910-1949” (PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 2015), 124-154.

Pepicelli, Renata. 2016. “Being Young and Post-Feminist in Morocco: The Emergence of a New Women’s Activism.” Studi Maġrebini 14–15 (i): 419–45.

Additional Reading Material:
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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
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