Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-

Description

xvi, 414 p. : map; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Gender and globalization

Subjects

• Women > Middle East > Social conditions
• Women > Political activity > Middle East
• Women > South Asia > Social conditions
• Women > Africa, North > Social conditions
• Women > Political activity > South Asia
• Women's rights > Africa, North
• Women > Political activity > Africa
• Women's rights > Middle East
• Women's rights > South Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-387) and index.

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.

Call Number

HQ1726.5

ISBN

• 9780815631118 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0815631111 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003003

OCLC

81940836

Title

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

Imprint

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Gender and globalization

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-387) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR HQ1726.5 .F76 2007