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Women and power in the Middle East / / edited by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics



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Titolo: Women and power in the Middle East / / edited by Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pa., : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 305.42/0956
Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - Middle East
Women - Middle East - History
Women - Middle East - Social conditions
Feminism - Middle East
Soggetto non controllato: African Studies
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Folklore
Gender Studies
Linguistics
Middle Eastern Studies
Political Science
Public Policy
Women's Studies
Altri autori: JosephSuad  
SlyomovicsSusan  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Overviews -- pt. II. Country case studies, west to east.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. Together they seek to build a framework for understanding broad patterns of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Challenging questions are addressed throughout. What roles have women played in politics in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements, revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for women in this region and how emerging national states there have dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions that govern their lives.Designed for courses in Middle East, women's, and cultural studies, Women and Power in the Middle East offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world.
Titolo autorizzato: Women and power in the Middle East  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89730-X
0-8122-0690-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808276803321
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