Eazidi Women's Practices of Empowerment and Capital Formation Following Enslavement by ISIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 487-508
Author(s):  
Kaziwa Salih
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

This chapter begins by surveying the historical context of rape in Iraq through the narrative of Eazidi women who escaped enslavement by ISIS. It then discusses the theology of rape in Islam, which has motivated ISIS to commit rape and legitimized the rape of Eazidi women. The chapter then theorizes the social capital of Middle Eastern women. The chapter argues that, for the first time, the Eazidi community in Iraq is altering the social consequences of rape by developing empowerment methods that amount to a social revolution within the Eazidi community. This empowerment not only protects Eazidi women survivors from experiencing common post-rape consequences but also increases their capital, in all its Bourdieusian forms.

Arab Women and Work: The Interrelation Between Orientalism and Historiography

Hawwa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-198
Author(s):  
Malek Abisaab
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Cultural Taboos ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis essay examines the approaches and themes in two overlapping historiographical areas on women and labor since the sixties. The first area examines the scholarship on Lebanese women and modernization. The second area covers the scholarship on women, labor and the family in Arab Middle Eastern society. Despite their general critique of Orientalist representations of the “Muslim” woman, several scholars continue to invest cognate features of the modernization discourse and West-centered models of womanhood. For one, scholars have persistently stated that the social structures in Middle Eastern/Islamic society do not lend themselves to class or gendered divisions. Using classical Eurocentric criteria for gauging women's “empowerment,” these scholars tried to show that Arab working-women are unable to organize themselves on the basis of gender due to cultural taboos, sectarian affiliations, provincial loyalties, family authority, and lack of education. At times, “Islam” or “culture” is presented as operating from above-creating social attitudes that limit women's public activities and involvement in waged work. The primacy given to cultural difference prevents comparability between Western and Middle Eastern/Muslim women on the basis of shared socio-economic experiences. Several studies overlooked the complex interconnections among family, sect, class and gender expressed through the range of activities and experiences linking women's domestic and waged work. There is indeed an overwhelming focus on the ideas and attitudes of bourgeois woman and their legal rights, which are rarely analyzed in connection to historical context, economic arrangements, productive patterns, or social interest. Rather, they are discussed in connection to women's education and work and ultimately levels of modernization. These prevalent features of the historiographical literature give shape to new and subtle Orientalist narratives about Muslim/Middle Eastern women.

scholarly journals The Social Consequences of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak in Iran: Is Social Capital at Risk? A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mohadeseh Motamed-Jahromi ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Kaveh
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Psychosocial Disorders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

As well as causing a global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has also generated multilevel social changes by damaging psychosocial and economic resources across Iranian society. Therefore, this qualitative study was conducted to examine and explain these social consequences and their impact on the social capital of Iran during the COVID-19 outbreak. Using a content analysis approach, nine experts participated in semistructured, in-depth interviews. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and analyzed using Lundman and Graneheim’s method. The social impacts of COVID-19 can be summarized into six categories and 32 subcategories. Three positive-negative categories emerged from the data analysis: “formation of new patterns of social communications; formation of new patterns of behavior; creation of economic changes.” Three entirely negative categories included “creating a climate of distrust; disruption of cultural, social, and religious values; psychosocial disorders.” Overall, most findings (27 out of 32 subcategories) indicated the destructive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social capital. Therefore, this raises concerns about social capital endangerment in Iran. However, positive social impacts can guide policies that strengthen social action and improve social capital.

Women's History and Ottoman Sharia Court Records: Shifting Perspectives in Social History

Hawwa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Agmon
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
North American ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Women’S History

AbstractThis paper revisits some methodological and conceptual aspects of scholarly works on the social history of Middle Eastern women based on Ottoman court records that were published in the last three decades. It discusses the main approaches employed by historians in the field for analyzing court records, and the circumstances that shaped these patterns. It shows that, during the 1970s and 1980s, this body of scholarly works on women's history, as part of Middle Eastern social history, adhered to historiographical approaches that did not follow the "cultural turn" characterizing West European and North American historiography. This situation, however, has recently changed.

Decoding the Movies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Maltby
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Related Case ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
First Time ◽  
Classical Hollywood

This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood movies to a detailed analysis of their historical, industrial and cultural contexts. In the process it utilizes industry data, aesthetic analysis and the insights of New Cinema History to explain why and how these movies assumed their familiar forms. The book represents the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field of Hollywood cinema. The essays presented here share an assumption that has increasingly informed the author’s critical method over the years: that any historical understanding of the films of this period requires a deep contextualization in the social circumstances surrounding both their production and consumption. In this way, the book introduces an innovative, overarching research methodology that synthesizes branches of research that are typically employed in isolation, including production, distribution, reception, film aesthetics, and cultural and historical context. Of the book’s nine chapters, three are presented here for the first time, and four have been substantially revised and extended from their original publication.

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