Critiquing Gender & Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives

A platform for transnational, intersectional and queer perspectives on gender and sexuality in the wider Middle East and its diasporas

Etel Adnan, 'Paysage du Feu', 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

This series approaches gender as a category of analysis, a platform of mobilisation and activism, an essential aspect of governance and a signifier of power relations that intersect with other inequalities. Encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, Critiquing Gender & Islam mainly features empirically grounded work, including ethnographic, visual and discursive material. Sexuality and queer politics are important aspects of the series’ understanding of the politics of gender.

Series Editors

• Nadje Al-Ali
• Kathryn Spellman Poots

Selected Series Themes

• Everyday contestations of gender and sexuality
• Constructions of heteropatriarchy and its relationship to dominant power structures
• Gendered governmentalities (regulation of sexuality and gender relations through state laws, policies and norms, changes over time and differences between countries)
• The politics of Islam/religion in relation to gender and sexuality
• Constructions and contestations of men and masculinities
• Feminist mobilisations and knowledge productions
• Relationships and tensions between feminist, queer and LBGT activism within the MENA region
• Opportunities and limitations of transnational feminist/queer activisms
• Decolonial approaches to gender, race and sexuality
• New technologies, cultural productions and the arts
• Muslim Humanities, aesthetics and rituals
• Impacts of war, displacement, revolutions and economic crises
• Climate change and environmental crises
• Health crises and the impact of Covid-19

International Advisory Board

• Zahra Ali, Rutgers University
• Afaf Al-Jabiri, University of East London
• Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College and Columbia University
• Sondra Hale, UCLA
• Gil Hochberg, Columbia University
• Amina Jamal, Ryerson University
• Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS
• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Nadine Naber, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick
• Ghiwa Sayiegh, editor in chief of Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research
• Gayatri Gopinath, New York University
• Bam Willoughby, Cornell University
• Asli Zengin, Rutgers University

Write for the series

If you have a proposal suitable for this series we’d love to hear from you.

• Find out more about writing and submitting your book proposal

If you have any questions before submitting, or would like to discuss your ideas, please contact the series editors:

• Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University: nadje_al-ali@brown.edu
• Kathryn Spellman Poots, Columbia University: kp2692@columbia.edu

Once you're ready to submit, email your book proposal to:

• Emma House, Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies: emma.house@eup.ed.ac.uk