Selected Publications:

 Articles:

Gender, Aging and the Evolving Arab Patriarchal Contract, Feminist Economics 11(2):53-78, 2005

Is Paid Work The (Only) Answer? Women's Well-Being, Neoliberalism and the Social Contract in Southwest Asia and North Africa, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2(1): 112-139, 2005

Induced Wage Effects of Changes in Food Prices in Egypt, with Gaurav Datt, Journal of Development Studies, 40(4): 137-66, April, 2004.

Assessing Religion’s Impact on Gender Status – A comment on ‘The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women’s Labor Supply,’ Feminist Economics, 8(3), November 2002.

How Skill Demands Are Related to Flexible Manufacturing Technology and Management Practices, with H. Frederick Gale, Jr. and Timothy Wojan, Industrial Relations, 41(1), January, 2002.

Telling Palestinian Women's Economic Stories, Feminist Economics, 3(2):141-151, 1997.

Women 'Manufacture' Economic Spaces In Bethlehem, World Development, 24(12):1829-1840, Dec. 1996

Book Chapters:

‘Globalization’ Denied: Gender and Poverty in Iraq and Palestine, in The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Armed Repression, and Women's Poverty, edited by Amalia Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller, Paradigm, Boulder, Colorado, forthcoming.

Structuring a Pension Scheme for a Future Palestinian State, with Edward Sayre in Economic Policy for Palestine, edited by David Cobham and Nu'man Kanafani, pp. 143-171, Routledge, London 2004.

Orientalism and Economic Methods - (Re)reading Feminist Economic Texts, in Postcolonialism Meets Economics , edited by Eiman Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela, Routledge, London, 2004.

Men’s Work/Women’s Work: Employment, Wages and Occupational Segregation in Bethlehem, in The Economics of Women and Work in the Middle East and North Africa, E. Mine Cinar (Ed.), Vol. 4 of Research in Middle East Economics, JAI/Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001.