Women and knowledge in the Mediterranean [Texte imprimé] / edited by Fatima Sadiqi

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Fatima Sadiqi -- Women and written knowledge -- A skeptical cast of mind / Marjorie Lightman -- Women and knowledge in Italy and Venice during the early modern period / Paola Malpezzi -- Seven francophone Mediterranean women writers speak out inside and outside / Evelyne Accad -- Moroccan women authors of French expression : feminine voices of "la littérature-monde" in the age of globalization / Valérie Orlondo -- The necessity of having it both ways : tradition, modernity, and experience in the works of Hélé Béji / Mary Barnard -- Women and oral knowledge -- Textual orality and knowledge of illiterate women : the textual performance of Jewish women in Morocco / Joseph Chetrit -- Berber women's oral knowledge / Fatima Sadiqi -- Women, legal, religious, and economic knowledge -- Morocco's 2004 family code moudawana : improving access to justice for women / Leila Hanafi and Christine Pratt -- Women's access to legal knowledge : the case of Palestinian women's NGOs in Israel / Liat Kozma -- Women and religious knowledge : focus on Muslim women preachers / Moha Ennaji -- Women and reproductive knowledge in the Mediterranean / Rachel Newcomb -- Women and media knowledge -- Contextulaizing the gender representation in Cyprus television / Mary Koutselini and Sofia Agathangelou -- Gender and political engagement : a role for the media in Malta / Carmen Sammut -- Stepping out : women blogging in their discontents / Marlyn Tadros