Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism

Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a...

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Main Author: Thomas, Marie-Claude
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spelling oai:112.137.131.14:VNU_123-750912020-10-14T02:51:21Z Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism Thomas, Marie-Claude Christian women; Lebanon; Social conditions 305.4095692 T4593W Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience. 2020-04-02T07:40:31Z 2020-04-02T07:40:31Z 2013 Book http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/75091 en © Marie-Claude Thomas 2013. 247 p. application/pdf Palgrave Macmillan
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Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism
description Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
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title Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism
title_short Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism
title_full Women in Lebanon : living with Christianity, Islam, and multiculturalism
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