Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-267) and index.

bla 1. Introduction : contextualizing gender and violence in the Middle East / Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi -- 2. Feminist anthropological perspectives on violence / Patricia Zuckerhut -- 3. Counter-narratives of Palestinian women : the construction of her-story and the politics of fear / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- 4. Gender, youth, and institutional support in the occupied Palestinian territories / Islah Jad -- 5. Impact of armed conflict on gender roles in Lebanon / Lamia Rustum Shehadeh -- 6. War and gender in Ba'thist Iraq / Achim Rohde -- 7. Violence against Afghan women : tradition, religion, conflict, and war / Anne E. Brodsky -- 8. Religious-based violence against women, and feminist responses : Iran, Afghanistan, and Algeria / Valentine M. Moghadam -- 9. Strategy in the battles over her : Islamism and secularism / Sherifa Zuhur -- 10. Reproductive health correlates of intimate partner violence in Jordan / Cari Jo Clark -- 11. Legal reforms on violence against women in Turkey : best practices / Pinar Ilkkaracan and Liz Ercevik Amado -- 12. Violence against women in Morocco : advances, contentions, and strategies to combat it / Moha Ennaji -- 13. Women and the violence of stereotypes in Morocco / Fatima Sadiqi -- 14. Dismantling the discourses of war : Palestinian women filmmakers address violence / Nadia Yaqub.