Contributors
- Contributors
Marilyn Booth is Iraq Professor of Arabic Studies and head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Bayram al-Tunisi's Egypt: Social Criticism and Narrative Strategies (1990) and May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), and editor of Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (forthcoming). She has also published on early Arabic fiction and emergent gender activisms, auto/biography, literature of colloquial Arabics, translation theory/practice, masculinities in Arabic literature, the pressures of censorship, and the emergence of print culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab societies. She is an award-winning translator of contemporary Arabic fiction into English. Among her translations are Disciples of Passion and The Tiller of Waters by Hoda Barakat, Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel, The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat, The Loved Ones by Alia Mamdouh, Points of the Compass: Stories by Sahar Tawfiq, Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi, and My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women.
Banu Gökariksel is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research engages with questions about neoliberal globalization, dimensions of public space, and identity-formation through contemporary everyday Islamic and secular practices and ideologies in Turkey. She has been doing ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul since 1996. Her primary research questions have examined competing and contested secular and Islamic visions and practices of contingent modernity in mall spaces, cultural politics of dress, and [End Page 200] consumer capitalism. Her publications have appeared in the journals Area, Global Networks, Social and Cultural Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and in Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (ed. Karen Morin and Jeanne Guelke, 2007). She is currently collaborating with Anna Secor on a National Science Foundation–funded project on the transnational veiling-fashion industry based in Turkey.
Carla Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research situates questions of class and gender in the context of urban Indonesia. She has written on consumption, Islam, mass media, and globalization, and was co-editor with Ann Marie Leshkowich and Sandra Niessen of Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (2003). She has also written on affect, subjectivity, and expertise. Her publications include "Better Women: The Cultural Politics of Gendered Expertise in Indonesia" (American Anthropologist, 2010), "Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia" (Fashion Theory, 2007), and "The Domestic CEO: Emotion Management as Feminized Work in Central Javanese Middle-Class Homes" (Ethnos, 2004).
Reina Lewis is Artscom Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. She is the author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem (2004) and Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity, and Representation (1996). She is co-editor, with Nancy Micklewright, of Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings; A Critical Sourcebook (2006); with Sara Mills, of Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (2003); and with Peter Horne, of Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (1996). Lewis is also series editor with Teresa Heffernan of the Gorgias Press book series, Cultures in Dialogue (2007), which brings back into print critical editions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century travel writing, memoir, and autobiography by Ottoman and Western women travelers and writers. An earlier piece from her current project on contemporary commodifications of Muslim femininities was published as "Veils and Sales: Muslims and the Spaces of Postcolonial Fashion Retail" (Fashion Theory, 2007). [End Page 201]
Ellen McLarney is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. She is currently working on feminist theologies of the Islamic revival in Egypt, focusing on how women's emancipation is configured in religious terms, and in particular how Islamist writers interpret the submission of Islam as a form of liberation. She took her doctoral degree from Columbia University in the fields of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies. She was a Humanities Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University; at Duke, she teaches Arabic Language and Cultural Studies...
