Women in the Modern History of Libya

Exploring Transnational Trajectories
Herausgeber: Spadaro, Barbara; Yeaw, Katrina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women in the Modern History of Libya features histories of Libyan women exploring the diversity of cultures, languages and memories of Libya from the age of the Empires to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780367894245
• ISBN-10: 0367894246
• Artikelnr.: 58410089

Autorenporträt

Barbara Spadaro is Lecturer in Italian History and Culture at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her principal areas of research are the history of Italians from North Africa, colonial and postcolonial migration and transcultural memory. She has published articles and a monograph on the history of women in the Italian empire, ideas of Italian whiteness and the Jewish diaspora from Libya. Katrina Yeaw is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. Her research interests include gender, race, colonialism, violence, memory, law, resistance and collaboration, and colonial and postcolonial literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender and transnational histories of Libya Barbara Spadaro
and Katrina Yeaw 1. Centre and periphery: variations in gendered space
among Libyan Jews in the late Ottoman period Rachel Simon 2. Finding women
and gender in the sources: toward a historical anthropology of Ottoman
Tripoli Nora Lafi 3. Gender, violence and resistance under Italian rule in
Cyrenaica, 1923-1934 Katrina Yeaw 4. Remembering the 'Italian' Jewish homes
of Libya: gender and transcultural memory (1967-2013) Barbara Spadaro 5.
Our star: Amazigh music and the production of intimacy in 2011 Libya Leila
Tayeb