Modernizing Women : : Gender and Social Change in the Middle East /

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

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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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Moghadam, Valentine M.,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (325 p.)
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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

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