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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586598603321

Autore

Welborne Bozena C.

Titolo

Women, Money, and Political Participation in the Middle East / / by Bozena C. Welborne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031048777

9783031048760

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Disciplina

305.42

320.0820956

Soggetti

Economic development

Middle Eastern Politics

Development Studies

Middle East Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: An Introduction: Gendered Rentierism in the Arab World -- Chapter 2: State Feminism and Gender Rentierism -- Chapter 3: Foreign Aid and Virtue Signaling  -- Chapter 4: The Gender Paradox of Remittances -- Chapter 5: Independents, Women’s Work, and Oil Rents -- Chapter 6. Gender Rentierism—a Curse or an Opportunity for Women?

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines women, money, and political participation in the Middle East and North Africa focusing on women’s capacity to engage local political systems. In particular, it considers whether and how this engagement is facilitated through specific types of financial flows from abroad. Arab countries are well-known rentier states, and so a prime destination for foreign aid, worker remittances, and oil-related investment. Alongside other factors these external monies have elicited dramatic shifts in gender-related social norms and expectations both from the state and the domestic population, affording certain women the opportunity to enter the political arena, while leaving others behind. The research presented here expands the discussion of women



in rentier political economy and highlights their roles as participants and agents within regional templates for economic development.