Women and power in the Middle East
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The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and …
A collection of 17 essays analyzing social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Essays document the similarities and differences in the gendering relations of power in 12 countries, providing a framework for und…
Women and power in the Middle East
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Type: Book
The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and …
"Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and by situating these interviews within their…
Women in the Middle East: past and present
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This text claims that newly veiled women in the Middle East are as much symbols of modernity as the women who took off the veil at the turn of the 20th century. They challenge the assumption that women's domesticity is associated to tradition, and entry into the public sphere wi…
Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the 'woman questi…