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The Resource Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region, Hanane Darhour, Drude Dahlerup, editors

Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region, Hanane Darhour, Drude Dahlerup, editors

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While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women's activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women's position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women's rights remains ambiguous and double-edged. Hanane Darhour is Associate Professor at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. She is the author of Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas: Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections (2012). Drude Dahlerup is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published extensively on gender and politics, gender quota systems, the history of women's movements, and theories of feminism, including Has Democracy Failed Women? (2018)
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eng
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xviii, 311 pages
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  • 1. Introduction: The Arab Uprisings and the Rights of Women (Drude DAHLERUP and Hanane DARHOUR)
  • Part I: Women's Rights, Feminism and Islamism
  • 2. The Center: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Women's Rights in Pre- and Post-Arab Spring North Africa (Fatima SADIQI)
  • 3. Whose Gender Equality? On the Boundaries of Islam and Feminism in the MENA Region (Ilyass BOUZGHAIA)
  • Part II: Post-Spring Dynamics and Feminist Norm Diffusion
  • 4. Cultural Change in North Africa: the Interaction Effect of Women's Empowerment and Democratization (Ginger FEATHER)
  • 5. Changing Tides? On How Popular Support for Feminism increased after the Arab Spring (Saskia GLAS and Niels SPIERINGS)
  • Part III: Women's Activism and the Reconfigured State
  • 6. Women's Activism in North Africa in Post Arab Spring (Moha ENNAJI)
  • 7. Political Opportunities for Islamist Women in Morocco and Egypt (Anwar MHAJNE)
  • 8. Contrasting Women's Rights in the Maghreb and the Middle East Constitutions (Aili Mari TRIPP)
  • Part IV: Empowered or Sidelined? On Women's Political Representation and Influence
  • 9. Examining Female Membership and Leadership of Legislative Committees in Jordan (Marwa SHALABY and Laila ELIMAM)
  • 10. Empowering young women? Gender and youth quotas in Tunisia (Jana BELSCHNER)
  • 11. Whose Empowerment? Gender Quota Reform Mechanisms and De-democratization in Morocco (Hanane DARHOUR)
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9783030277345
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Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region
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Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region
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Hanane Darhour, Drude Dahlerup, editors
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Language
eng
Summary
While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women's activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women's position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women's rights remains ambiguous and double-edged. Hanane Darhour is Associate Professor at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. She is the author of Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas: Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections (2012). Drude Dahlerup is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published extensively on gender and politics, gender quota systems, the history of women's movements, and theories of feminism, including Has Democracy Failed Women? (2018)
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  • Dahlerup, Drude,
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Gender and politics
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  • Women's rights
  • Women's rights
  • Women's rights
  • North Africa
  • Middle East
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Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region, Hanane Darhour, Drude Dahlerup, editors
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
1. Introduction: The Arab Uprisings and the Rights of Women (Drude DAHLERUP and Hanane DARHOUR) -- Part I: Women's Rights, Feminism and Islamism -- 2. The Center: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Women's Rights in Pre- and Post-Arab Spring North Africa (Fatima SADIQI) -- 3. Whose Gender Equality? On the Boundaries of Islam and Feminism in the MENA Region (Ilyass BOUZGHAIA) -- Part II: Post-Spring Dynamics and Feminist Norm Diffusion -- 4. Cultural Change in North Africa: the Interaction Effect of Women's Empowerment and Democratization (Ginger FEATHER) -- 5. Changing Tides? On How Popular Support for Feminism increased after the Arab Spring (Saskia GLAS and Niels SPIERINGS) -- Part III: Women's Activism and the Reconfigured State -- 6. Women's Activism in North Africa in Post Arab Spring (Moha ENNAJI) -- 7. Political Opportunities for Islamist Women in Morocco and Egypt (Anwar MHAJNE) -- 8. Contrasting Women's Rights in the Maghreb and the Middle East Constitutions (Aili Mari TRIPP) -- Part IV: Empowered or Sidelined? On Women's Political Representation and Influence -- 9. Examining Female Membership and Leadership of Legislative Committees in Jordan (Marwa SHALABY and Laila ELIMAM) -- 10. Empowering young women? Gender and youth quotas in Tunisia (Jana BELSCHNER) -- 11. Whose Empowerment? Gender Quota Reform Mechanisms and De-democratization in Morocco (Hanane DARHOUR)
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1125088571
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22 cm
Extent
xviii, 311 pages
Isbn
9783030277345
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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9783030277345
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illustrations (black and white)
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(OCoLC)1125088571
Label
Double-edged politics on women's rights in the MENA region, Hanane Darhour, Drude Dahlerup, editors
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
1. Introduction: The Arab Uprisings and the Rights of Women (Drude DAHLERUP and Hanane DARHOUR) -- Part I: Women's Rights, Feminism and Islamism -- 2. The Center: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Women's Rights in Pre- and Post-Arab Spring North Africa (Fatima SADIQI) -- 3. Whose Gender Equality? On the Boundaries of Islam and Feminism in the MENA Region (Ilyass BOUZGHAIA) -- Part II: Post-Spring Dynamics and Feminist Norm Diffusion -- 4. Cultural Change in North Africa: the Interaction Effect of Women's Empowerment and Democratization (Ginger FEATHER) -- 5. Changing Tides? On How Popular Support for Feminism increased after the Arab Spring (Saskia GLAS and Niels SPIERINGS) -- Part III: Women's Activism and the Reconfigured State -- 6. Women's Activism in North Africa in Post Arab Spring (Moha ENNAJI) -- 7. Political Opportunities for Islamist Women in Morocco and Egypt (Anwar MHAJNE) -- 8. Contrasting Women's Rights in the Maghreb and the Middle East Constitutions (Aili Mari TRIPP) -- Part IV: Empowered or Sidelined? On Women's Political Representation and Influence -- 9. Examining Female Membership and Leadership of Legislative Committees in Jordan (Marwa SHALABY and Laila ELIMAM) -- 10. Empowering young women? Gender and youth quotas in Tunisia (Jana BELSCHNER) -- 11. Whose Empowerment? Gender Quota Reform Mechanisms and De-democratization in Morocco (Hanane DARHOUR)
Control code
1125088571
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
xviii, 311 pages
Isbn
9783030277345
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9783030277345
Other physical details
illustrations (black and white)
System control number
(OCoLC)1125088571

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