Organizing women
Subtitle: formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East
By: edited by Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo.
Contributors: Chatty, Dawn.; Rabo, Annika.
Series: Cross-cultural perspectives on women ;; v. [17]
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Women -- Middle East -- Societies and clubs.; Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo; title: Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : constraints, opportunities, and priorities / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph; title: Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami; title: Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander; title: Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly; title: The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz; title: Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali; title: From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni; title: Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.