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