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Article: Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.(Review)
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Evelyn Shakir. Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997, 226 pp. Paper $22.95.
Women of Arab ancestry in America want to feel ourselves... spiritually if not physically, a part of our ethnic community, but at the same time need role models from our collective past that will, implicitly, give us permission to be oddballs.
So begins Evelyn Shakir's odyssey into the past, a journey that crosses and re-crosses the Atlantic, wanders the streets of Boston with women peddlers and follows Arab-American women into their homes, their business, their factories, their classes, their clubs, and above all, the world of ...