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    From patriarchy to empowerment : women's participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia / edited by Valentine M. Moghadam.

    Contributor(s): Moghadam, Valentine M, 1952-Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and globalization: Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 414 p. : map ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780815631118 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0815631111 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions | Women -- Africa, North -- Social conditions | Women -- South Asia -- Social conditions | Women's rights -- Middle East | Women's rights -- Africa, North | Women's rights -- South Asia | Women -- Political activity -- Middle East | Women -- Political activity -- Africa, North | Women -- Political activity -- South Asia | Women -- Political activity | Women -- Social conditions | Women's rights | Africa, North | Middle East | South Asia | Frau | Politische Beteiligung | Naher Osten | Nordafrika | Südasien | Mänskliga rättigheter -- Mellanöstern -- Nordafrika -- Sydasien | Patriarkalism | Politisk verksamhet | Social status | Frau | Politische Beteiligung | Nordafrika | Naher Osten | Südasien | Kvinnors rättigheter | Kvinnor i politiken | Mellanöstern -- sociala förhållanden | Nordafrika -- sociala förhållanden | Främre Indien -- sociala förhållandenAdditional physical formats: Online version:: From patriarchy to empowerment.DDC classification: 305.4209172/4 LOC classification: HQ1726.5 | .F76 2007Other classification: MH 10285
    Contents:
    Women's empowerment : an introduction and overview / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Mobilizing women for nationalist agendas : Palestinian women, civil society, and the state-building process / Deborah J. Gerner -- Against all odds : women candidates in Jordan's 1997 elections / Abla Amawi -- Afghan women under marxism / Senzil Nawid -- Women in political parties in Turkey : emerging spaces for Islamic women / Nilufer Narli -- Feminist organizing in Tunisia : negotiating transnational linkages and the state / Sarah E. Gilman -- Women, communications, and democratization in Morocco / Loubna H. Skalli -- Women's empowerment in India : rhetoric and reality / Ahmad Shamshad -- Girl but not woman : garment factory workers in Fez, Morocco / M. Laetitia Cairoli -- The status of rural women in Turkey : what is the role of regional differences? / Ayşe Gündüz-Hoşgör and Jeroen Smits -- Education, tradition, and modernization : Bedouin girls in Israel / Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder -- Museum feminization? Women and museum employment in Jordan / Carol Malt -- Feminism and censorship in an Islamic republic : women filmmakers in Iran / Ibrahim al-Marashi -- Depression in Nepalese women : tradition, changing roles, and public health policy / Dana Crowley Jack and Mark van Ommeren -- The menace of dowry : laws, interpretation, and implementation / Poonam Saxena -- Islamic law, feminism, and family : the reformulation of hudud in Egypt and Tunisia / Lilia Labidi -- Gender and violence in Lebanese war novels / Evelyne Accad -- Iron breaks, too : Israeli and Palestinian women talk about war, bereavement, and peace / Ziva Flamhaft -- Peace-building and reconstruction with women : reflections on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Appendix : Measuring women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia / Valentine M. Moghadam and Lucie Senftova.
    Summary: Offering 20 studies on instances of emerging social justice and women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, this text shows how changes are occurring as capital, people, and information erode entrenched gender regimes, giving birth to energetic and forward-thinking women's movements.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-387) and index.

    Women's empowerment : an introduction and overview / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Mobilizing women for nationalist agendas : Palestinian women, civil society, and the state-building process / Deborah J. Gerner -- Against all odds : women candidates in Jordan's 1997 elections / Abla Amawi -- Afghan women under marxism / Senzil Nawid -- Women in political parties in Turkey : emerging spaces for Islamic women / Nilufer Narli -- Feminist organizing in Tunisia : negotiating transnational linkages and the state / Sarah E. Gilman -- Women, communications, and democratization in Morocco / Loubna H. Skalli -- Women's empowerment in India : rhetoric and reality / Ahmad Shamshad -- Girl but not woman : garment factory workers in Fez, Morocco / M. Laetitia Cairoli -- The status of rural women in Turkey : what is the role of regional differences? / Ayşe Gündüz-Hoşgör and Jeroen Smits -- Education, tradition, and modernization : Bedouin girls in Israel / Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder -- Museum feminization? Women and museum employment in Jordan / Carol Malt -- Feminism and censorship in an Islamic republic : women filmmakers in Iran / Ibrahim al-Marashi -- Depression in Nepalese women : tradition, changing roles, and public health policy / Dana Crowley Jack and Mark van Ommeren -- The menace of dowry : laws, interpretation, and implementation / Poonam Saxena -- Islamic law, feminism, and family : the reformulation of hudud in Egypt and Tunisia / Lilia Labidi -- Gender and violence in Lebanese war novels / Evelyne Accad -- Iron breaks, too : Israeli and Palestinian women talk about war, bereavement, and peace / Ziva Flamhaft -- Peace-building and reconstruction with women : reflections on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Appendix : Measuring women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia / Valentine M. Moghadam and Lucie Senftova.

    Offering 20 studies on instances of emerging social justice and women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, this text shows how changes are occurring as capital, people, and information erode entrenched gender regimes, giving birth to energetic and forward-thinking women's movements.

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