Gender and Violence in the Middle East

by David Ghanim

Book Overview

Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societies. Ghanim contends that the inherent violence of gender relations in the Middle East feeds the authoritarianism and political violence that plague public life in the region. In this societal sense, men as well as women may be said to be victims of the structural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313359954
• ISBN13: 9780313359958
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"