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
(Gender and politics series / series editors, Johanna Kantola)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of 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 AfricaFatima SADIQI
3. Whose Gender Equality? On the Boundaries of Islam and Feminism in the MENA RegionIlyass BOUZGHAIA
Part II: Post-Spring Dynamics and Feminist Norm Diffusion
4. Cultural Change in North Africa: the Interaction Effect of Women's Empowerment and DemocratizationGinger FEATHER
5. Changing Tides? On How Popular Support for Feminism increased after the Arab SpringSaskia GLAS and Niels SPIERINGS
Part III: Women's Activism and the Reconfigured State
6. Women's Activism in North Africa in Post Arab SpringMoha 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 TunisiaJana BELSCHNER
11. Whose Empowerment? Gender Quota Reform Mechanisms and De-democratization in MoroccoHanane DARHOUR
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