COVID and Gender in the Middle East
Published on 21. February 2023
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-4773-2652-7 (ISBN)
Description
As the coronavirus ravages the globe, its aftermaths have brought gender inequalities to the forefront of many conversations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been slow to prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis and its impacts on governance, economics, security, and rights. Women's physical well-being, social safety nets, and economic participation have been disproportionately affected, and with widespread shutdowns and capricious social welfare programs, women are exiting the workplace and the classroom, carrying the caregiving burden.
With feminist foregrounding, Rita Stephan's collection COVID and Gender in the Middle East gathers an impressive group of local scholars, activists, and policy experts. The book examines a range of national and localized responses to gender-specific issues around COVID's health impact and the economic fallout and resulting social vulnerabilities, including the magnified marginalization of Syrian refugees; the inequitable treatment of migrant workers in Bahrain; and the inadequate implementation of gender-based violence legislation in Morocco. An essential global resource, this book is the first to provide empirical evidence of COVID's gendered effects.
With feminist foregrounding, Rita Stephan's collection COVID and Gender in the Middle East gathers an impressive group of local scholars, activists, and policy experts. The book examines a range of national and localized responses to gender-specific issues around COVID's health impact and the economic fallout and resulting social vulnerabilities, including the magnified marginalization of Syrian refugees; the inequitable treatment of migrant workers in Bahrain; and the inadequate implementation of gender-based violence legislation in Morocco. An essential global resource, this book is the first to provide empirical evidence of COVID's gendered effects.
Reviews / Votes
For a fresh take on the pandemic's impact on gender relations in the MENA region, this book is a must-read. Scholars of public health, gender, and/or the MENA region will ?nd much of the research gathered in this volume rich and valuable. (H-Net Reviews (H-Sci-Med-Tech)) COVID and Gender in the Middle East is a genuinely important contribution to a critical topic which has not received the attention it merits. It should force us all to think through the pandemic not only as a political and economic event, or as a public health challenge, but as a highly gendered social, political, and economic intervention. Their gendered lens lets us see more clearly holes in state capacity, with weak medical sectors and decrepit public health institutions so clearly observable in women's access to health care. The gendered lens pushes us to understand effects across levels of analysis, to look inside the household as much as we look at formal political institutions or civil society. This collection should provoke a lot of thought and open up many avenues for future research. (Abu Aardvark's MENA Academy)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4773-2652-7 (9781477326527)
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Rita Stephan is a research fellow at North Carolina State University and the Regional Coordinator for Religious and Ethnic Minorities at USAID. She is the coeditor of Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring and "In Line with the Divine": The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon.
Content
Foreword. The Response to COVID-and to Everything-Is Female (Lina AbiRafeh)
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. Why Is COVID Female? (Rita Stephan)
Part I. Care and Care Work Spheres
Chapter 1. COVID-19, Women, and Healthcare (Valentine M. Moghadam)
Chapter 2. COVID-19: A Threat to Lebanese Women's Precarious Condition (Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss and Jana G. Mourad)
Chapter 3. The Impact of COVID-19 on Women's Prosperity in the Gulf Countries: Survey Evidence from Bahrain (Omar Al-Ubaydli, Deema Almoayyed, and Ghada Abdulla)
Chapter 4. When Inequalities Interconnect: Women Scholars' Productivity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (Nermin Allam, Gail J. Buttorff, and Marwa Shalaby)
Part II. Social Vulnerabilities
Chapter 5. The LGBTIQ+ Community's COVID Dilemma in Lebanon and Beyond (Lina Abou-Habib and Amina Ali)
Chapter 6. The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic on Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan (Oroub El-Abed and Nuseibah Shabaitah)
Chapter 7. Violence against Women during and after Lockdown (Rhizlaine Benachir and Sofia RaIs)
Chapter 8. Gender Dynamics and Distance Education: Toward a Situational-Interactionist Model of the COVID-19 Contingency Effect on Female University Students in Morocco (Ilham Sadoqi)
Part III. A Gender Lens on COVID Impact in the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 9. COVID's Three-Order Impacts on Women's Health: A Typology (Rita Stephan)
Chapter 10. Women's Rights and Roles during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Salma Al-Shami, Michael Robbins, and Zach Bampton)
Chapter 11. Unmasking Masculinity during COVID in the Middle East and North Africa (Merissa Khurma, Youssef Chouhoud, and Rita Stephan)
Part IV. Feminist Responses
Chapter 12. COVID-19 and Feminism in the Middle East: Challenges, Initiatives, and Dilemmas (Nadje Al-Ali)
Chapter 13. The Power of Bipartisan Mobilization: The Success of Tunisia's Feminist Movement during the Coronavirus Pandemic (Maro Youssef and Sarah Yerkes)
Chapter 14. Harmony of Feminine and Masculine Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan (Mayyada Abu Jaber)
Chapter 15. The Feminist Position: Corona Crisis Management and Its Impact on Palestinian Women (Reham Abu Al-Asal, Nabila Espenoli, Samah Salaima, Nahda Shehadeh, Shahira Shalabi, and Hana Amouri)
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. Why Is COVID Female? (Rita Stephan)
Part I. Care and Care Work Spheres
Chapter 1. COVID-19, Women, and Healthcare (Valentine M. Moghadam)
Chapter 2. COVID-19: A Threat to Lebanese Women's Precarious Condition (Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss and Jana G. Mourad)
Chapter 3. The Impact of COVID-19 on Women's Prosperity in the Gulf Countries: Survey Evidence from Bahrain (Omar Al-Ubaydli, Deema Almoayyed, and Ghada Abdulla)
Chapter 4. When Inequalities Interconnect: Women Scholars' Productivity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (Nermin Allam, Gail J. Buttorff, and Marwa Shalaby)
Part II. Social Vulnerabilities
Chapter 5. The LGBTIQ+ Community's COVID Dilemma in Lebanon and Beyond (Lina Abou-Habib and Amina Ali)
Chapter 6. The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic on Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan (Oroub El-Abed and Nuseibah Shabaitah)
Chapter 7. Violence against Women during and after Lockdown (Rhizlaine Benachir and Sofia RaIs)
Chapter 8. Gender Dynamics and Distance Education: Toward a Situational-Interactionist Model of the COVID-19 Contingency Effect on Female University Students in Morocco (Ilham Sadoqi)
Part III. A Gender Lens on COVID Impact in the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 9. COVID's Three-Order Impacts on Women's Health: A Typology (Rita Stephan)
Chapter 10. Women's Rights and Roles during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Salma Al-Shami, Michael Robbins, and Zach Bampton)
Chapter 11. Unmasking Masculinity during COVID in the Middle East and North Africa (Merissa Khurma, Youssef Chouhoud, and Rita Stephan)
Part IV. Feminist Responses
Chapter 12. COVID-19 and Feminism in the Middle East: Challenges, Initiatives, and Dilemmas (Nadje Al-Ali)
Chapter 13. The Power of Bipartisan Mobilization: The Success of Tunisia's Feminist Movement during the Coronavirus Pandemic (Maro Youssef and Sarah Yerkes)
Chapter 14. Harmony of Feminine and Masculine Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan (Mayyada Abu Jaber)
Chapter 15. The Feminist Position: Corona Crisis Management and Its Impact on Palestinian Women (Reham Abu Al-Asal, Nabila Espenoli, Samah Salaima, Nahda Shehadeh, Shahira Shalabi, and Hana Amouri)
Contributors
Index