Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. FOREWORD The Response to COVID—and to Everything— Is Female xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. INTRODUCTION Why Is COVID Female? xxi
7. PART I Care and Care Work Spheres
8. CHAPTER 1 COVID-19, Women, and Healthcare 1
9. CHAPTER 2 COVID-19: A Threat to Lebanese Women’s Precarious Condition 28
10. CHAPTER 3 The Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Prosperity in the Gulf Countries: Survey Evidence from Bahrain 48
11. CHAPTER 4 When Inequalities Interconnect: Women Scholars’ Productivity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa 71
12. PART II Social Vulnerabilities
13. CHAPTER 5 The LGBTIQ+ Community’s COVID Dilemma in Lebanon 93
14. CHAPTER 6 The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic on Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan 106
15. CHAPTER 7 Violence against Moroccan Women during and after Lockdown 125
16. CHAPTER 8 Gender Dynamics and Distance Education: Toward a Situational-Interactionist Model of the COVID-19 Contingency Effect on Female University Students in Morocco 139
17. PART III A Gender Lens on COVID Impact in the Middle East and North Africa
18. CHAPTER 9 COVID’s Three-Order Impacts on Women’s Lives: A Typology 159
19. CHAPTER 10 Women’s Rights and Roles during the COVID-19 Pandemic 172
20. CHAPTER 11 Unmasking Masculinity during COVID in the Middle East and North Africa 191
21. PART IV Feminist Responses
22. CHAPTER 12 COVID-19 and Feminism in the Middle East: Challenges, Initiatives, and Dilemmas 209
23. CHAPTER 13 The Power of Bipartisan Mobilization: The Success of Tunisia’s Feminist Movement during the Coronavirus Pandemic 225
24. CHAPTER 14 Harmony of Feminine and Masculine Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan 236
25. CHAPTER 15 The Feminist Position: Corona Crisis Management and Its Impact on Palestinian Women 256
26. Contributors 275
27. Index 287