Modernizing Women : : Gender and Social Change in the Middle East / / Valentine M. Moghadam.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Moghadam, Valentine M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Note on Transliteration and the Iranian Calendar --; 1 Recasting the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan --; Introduction --; Debating the Status of Muslim Women --; Assessing Women's Status --; Diversity in the Middle East --; A Framework for Analysis: Gender, Class, the State, Development --; Social Changes and Women in the Middle East --; 2 Economic Development, State Policy, and Women's Employment --; The Internationalization of Capital and the Middle East --; Oil, Liberalization, and Women's Employment --; Industrialization and Female Proletarianization --; Characteristics of the Female Labor Force --; State Policies and Women's Status: Some Cases --; Development, Work, and Women's Empowerment --; Conclusion --; 3 Reforms, Revolutions, and "the Woman Question" --; Gendering Revolutions --; The Kemalist Revolution in Turkey --; National Liberation, Revolution, and Gender in Algeria --; The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen --; Revolution, Islamization, and Women in Iran --; Afghanistan: The Saur Revolution and Women's Rights --; Revolution. State Building, and Women --; 4 Patriarchy and the Changing Family --; Patriarchal Society and Family --; Family Structure in the Middle East --; Neopatriarchal States and Personal Status Laws --; The Demographic Transition and Changes in Fertility Behavior --; Education and Women's Empowerment --; 5 Islamist Movements and Women's Responses --; Causes and Social Bases of Islamist Movements --; Gharbzadegi: Problematics of Class and Gender --; States and Islamist Movements --; Personal Status Laws and the Control of Women --; Women and Islamist Movements: Some Cases --; Conclusion: Women's Responses to Islamist Movements --; 6 Iran: From Islamization to Islamic Feminism and Beyond? --; Gender Ideology and Policies --; The Decline of Women's Status in the 1980s --; Liberalization and Policy Shifts in the 1990s --; Women in the Labor Force: Still Marginalized --; The Emergence of Islamic Feminism --; Conclusion: Religious State, Secular Society? --; 7 Afghanistan: Revolution, Reaction, and Attempted Reconstruction --; Afghan Social Structure and Its Implications for Women --; A Prototype of the Weak State --; Early Reforms Concerning Women --; Characteristics of Afghan Patriarchy --; The DRA and Women's Rights --; Internationalized Civil Conflict --; From Revolution to Reconciliation --; Social Organizations and Social Services, --; Women in the Refugee Camps --; Gender Shock: Life Under Islamist Rule --; Toward Reconstruction, Development, and Women's Rights --; 8 All That Is Solid Melts into Air . . --; Engendering Citizenship, Feminizing Civil Society --; Women in Movement: Claims and Gains --; List of Acronyms --; Selected Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685858995; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685858995
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Valentine M. Moghadam.

Moghadam’s influential study of gender dynamics and social processes in the Middle East has been fully updated to reflect a decade of major changes.