From patriarchy to empowerment
Subtitle: women's participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
By: edited by Valentine M. Moghadam.
Contributors: Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780815631118
Subjects: Women -- Social conditions -- Middle East; Women -- Social conditions -- Africa, North; Women -- Social conditions -- South Asia; Women's rights -- Middle East; Women's rights -- Africa, North; Women's rights -- South Asia; Women in politics -- Middle East; Women in politics -- Africa; Women in politics -- South Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-387) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's empowerment : an introduction and overview / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: Mobilizing women for nationalist agendas : Palestinian women, civil society, and the state-building process / Deborah J. Gerner; title: Against all odds : women candidates in Jordan's 1997 elections / Abla Amawi; title: Afghan women under marxism / Senzil Nawid; title: Women in political parties in Turkey : emerging spaces for Islamic women / Nilufer Narli; title: Feminist organizing in Tunisia : negotiating transnational linkages and the state / Sarah E. Gilman; title: Women, communications, and democratization in Morocco / Loubna H. Skalli; title: Women's empowerment in India : rhetoric and reality / Ahmad Shamshad; title: Girl but not woman : garment factory workers in Fez, Morocco / M. Laetitia Cairoli; title: The status of rural women in Turkey : what is the role of regional differences? / Ayşe Gündüz-Hoşgör and Jeroen Smits; title: Education, tradition, and modernization : Bedouin girls in Israel / Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder; title: Museum feminization? Women and museum employment in Jordan / Carol Malt; title: Feminism and censorship in an Islamic republic : women filmmakers in Iran / Ibrahim al-Marashi; title: Depression in Nepalese women : tradition, changing roles, and public health policy / Dana Crowley Jack and Mark van Ommeren; title: The menace of dowry : laws, interpretation, and implementation / Poonam Saxena; title: Islamic law, feminism, and family : the reformulation of hudud in Egypt and Tunisia / Lilia Labidi; title: Gender and violence in Lebanese war novels / Evelyne Accad; title: Iron breaks, too : Israeli and Palestinian women talk about war, bereavement, and peace / Ziva Flamhaft; title: Peace-building and reconstruction with women : reflections on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: Appendix : Measuring women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia / Valentine M. Moghadam and Lucie Senftova.