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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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" -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 5 Islamist Movements and Women's Responses -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 8 All That Is Solid Melts into Air . . -- Introduction -- Engendering Citizenship, Feminizing Civil Society -- Women in Movement: Claims and Gains -- Conclusion -- List of Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book