In Line with the Divine

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In Line with the Divine is written by Rita Stephan and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0692472274 (ISBN 10) and 9780692472279 (ISBN 13).

"In Line with the Divine": The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon supports the movement to eradicate gender-based violence in Lebanon and throughout the Arab World. This book contributes to eliminating gender inequality by documenting, analyzing, and showing ways to overcome social, legal, and familial relationships that condone violence. Strengthening women's resolve and women's empowerment to define the basis and execution of their own discourse of revitalization and activism is one important path towards that goal. In engaging and tackling Islamic modernism and secular nationalism discourses, the contributors and editors of this book advance women's rights and claim space for women's agency to become effective. This book features research on gender equality in the family (Rita Sabat), campaigns against domestic violence in Lebanon (Nicole Khoury), Laure Moghaizel's pioneering activism for women's rights (Rita Stephan), the civil marriage debate (Nelia Hyndman-Rizk), Shi'ite women in the Eastern Beqa'a Valley (Sherifa Zuhur), Lebanese women and divorce (Mireille Aprahamian), women entrepreneurs in Lebanon (Hayfaa Tlaiss), women left behind after men's migration (Stephanie Hjorth), Syrian women refugees in the Lebanese media (Rouba El Helou & Maria Bou Zeid), and Lebanese women's transnational immigrant experiences (Dalia Abdelhady). "In Line with the Divine": The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon and its editors are the first recipients of the Rita Sabat Award, which ABAAD: Resource Center for Gender Equality (Beirut, Lebanon) established in recognition of the late Dr. Sabat's contribution to gender equality, justice, and human rights. Abelian Acacemic's new Gender, Religion, & History (GRH) series publishes books that advance ambitious, challenging, creative, and yet accessible academic research on questions that are at the heart of human identity and the ability of women and men to live together in society in meaningful, enriching, and satisfying ways. One of the series' important goals is to further the study of the lives, histories, representations, contributions, and experiences of women in the Middle East and adjacent regions, throughout history and in contemporary settings.