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Fedwa Malti-Douglas (born 1946) is a Lebanese-American professor and writer. She is currently a professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington. Malti-Douglas has written several books, including The Star Report Disrobed (2000) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She received a National Humanities Medal in 2015.

Biography

Malti-Douglas grew up in Deir el-Qamar, where her father was a physician.^[1] Her primary education took place at French Catholic boarding schools and at age 12, she emigrated to the United States.^[1] She learned to become fluent in English and when she attended Cornell University, she started taking Semitic languages.^[1] Malti-Douglas attended the University of California, Los Angeles and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales where she did her graduate work in Arabic.^[1]

Malti-Douglas received a 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters and earned the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Dean of Women's Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington in 1998.^[2] In 2004, she was inducted into the American Philosophical Society.^[2] Malti-Douglas was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015.^[3]

Malti-Douglas is currently a professor emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington and the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.^[2]

Work

Malti-Douglas studied Muslim literary texts from medieval to modern times and wrote about her findings in Women and Gender in Islam (1991).^[4] She describes how women's bodies are increasingly seen as a threat in this literature.^[4] Malti-Douglas wrote the second English language examination of the work of Nawal El Saadawi in 1995.^[5] The work, Men Women and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics is a "penetrating and admiring analysis of El Saadawi's writing," according to Library Journal.^[5] Men, Women and God(s) is also about showing that El Saadawi's work is literature, not just "polemics," as it is often labeled.^[6]

In The Star Report Disrobed (2000), Malti-Douglas deconstructs the issues surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal from a feminist perspective.^[7] The California Law Review called The Star Report Disrobed an "insightful and peppy book."^[8] The journal also felt that the book highlighted another issue: legal document are no longer just for lawyers and jurists, but have become "salable media content and, ultimately, popular cultural artifacts."^[8] The New York Times writes that Malti-Douglas deals with the differences between the facts in the case and the conclusions drawn by prosecutor, Kenneth Starr.^[9] The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.^[10]

In Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam (2001), Malti-Douglas gives an analysis of three autobiographies belonging to Muslim women who became more religious.^[11] Each of the women she studies have rejected the ideas of the "secular West."^[12] Her book examines how men impact and guide the daily lives and even spiritual dreams of Muslim women.^[11]

In 2008, Malti-Douglas edited the comprehensive reference book, The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, which cover topics about sex and gender through the fields of psychology, sociology, biology, religion and history.^[10] Booklist wrote that "Bringing together a remarkable array of material, this set, which appears to be without competition, will no doubt succeed in providing information but also in creating dialogue around issues of sex and gender.^[13]

References

1. ^¹²³{{Cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/fedwa-malti-douglas|title=Fedwa Malti-Douglas|last=|first=|date=|website=National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222021630/https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/fedwa-malti-douglas|archive-date=22 December 2018|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-31}}
2. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=https://genderstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/malti-douglas-fedwa.html|title=Fedwa Malti-Douglas|last=|first=|date=|website=Department of Gender Studies|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231224535/https://genderstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/malti-douglas-fedwa.html|archive-date=31 December 2018|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-31}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26707410/the_heraldpalladium/|title=Obama to Award Arts Medals to Sally Field, Stephen King|last=Superville|first=Darlene|date=6 September 2015|work=The Herald-Palladium|access-date=2018-12-31|via=Newspapers.com}}
4. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Peirce|first=Leslie|date=2009|title=AHR Forum: Writing Histories of Sexuality in the Middle East|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hft&AN=509954606&site=ehost-live|journal=American Historical Review|volume=114|issue=5|pages=1325–1339|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
5. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Beverly|date=September 1995|title=Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=9509277634&site=ehost-live|journal=Library Journal|volume=120|issue=14|pages=195|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
6. ^{{Cite journal|last=Talahite|first=Anissa|date=November 1997|title=Book Reviews|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9712060589&site=ehost-live|journal=Journal of Gender Studies|volume=6|issue=3|pages=331|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26667206/tampa_bay_times/|title=Feminists Dissect the Clinton Sex Scandal|last=Thomas|first=Bill|date=20 August 2000|work=Tampa Bay Times|access-date=2018-12-30|via=Newspapers.com}}
8. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Filler|first=Daniel M.|date=2002|title=From Law to Content in the New Media Marketplace|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=8524902&site=ehost-live|journal=California Law Review|volume=90|issue=5|pages=1739|doi=10.2307/3481368|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/22/bib/001022.rv104312.html|title=The Starr Report Disrobed|last=Boyer|first=Allen D.|date=22 October 2000|website=The New York Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-12-31}}
10. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Sutton|first=Sarah|date=2008|title=Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=31329396&site=ehost-live|journal=Library Journal|volume=113|issue=5|pages=89|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
11. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Shissler|first=A. Holly|date=September 2005|title=Women’s Human Rights and Islam: A Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation/Women in Islam: The Western Experience/Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=18922460&site=ehost-live|journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society|volume=31|issue=1|pages=241–247|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
12. ^{{Cite journal|last=Jacobs|first=Janet L.|date=2003-12-01|title=Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam, by Fewa Malti-Douglas|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=11801065&site=ehost-live|journal=Sociology of Religion|language=en|volume=64|issue=4|pages=528–530|doi=10.2307/3712342|issn=1069-4404|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}
13. ^{{Cite journal|last=Watstein|first=Sarah|date=April 2008|title=Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=31851157&site=ehost-live|journal=Booklist|volume=104|issue=16|pages=76|subscription=yes|via=EBSCOhost}}