Review of Carmelo PÉREZ BELTRÁN (2022): Mujeres en contexto árabe, motor de cambio social. Granada: Editorial de la Universidad de Granada

Abstract

Mujeres en contexto árabe, motor de cambio social (2022) comes at a key moment in the consolidation of studies on women's, feminist and gender movements in the Arab and Islamic world from Arab Studies Departments in Spain. Without going any further, in recent years numerous doctoral theses have been defended, from different perspectives, on these movements from Arab studies and other related disciplines. Mujeres en contexto árabe, motor de cambio social marks a trend and a need, as did Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar, professor in the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Granada and pioneer in the study of feminist movements in the Arab world in Spain, to whom this book, edited by Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, first a disciple of Caridad, later a colleague in the same Department and a specialist like her in women's studies, particularly in North Africa, is dedicated. Mujeres en contexto árabe, motor de cambio social honors the research and teaching work of Caridad Ruiz de Almodóvar while at the same time traces the mark she has left on the evolution of these studies in the Department of Semitic Studies and, specifically, in the area of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Granada. It is therefore not surprising that most of the researchers and collaborators in the book come from that University, although not only, also from the University of Malaga and the University of Extremadura, most of them grouped around the Contemporary Arab Studies Research Group (HUM-108) of the University of Granada.