Family in the Middle East
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Arab Families
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Civil Society
comparative social change
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Family Law Policy
Family Law Reforms
Family Planning Policies
Family Planning Program
Father's Brother's Daughter
Father’s Brother’s Daughter
feminist movements history
Frees Women
gender roles analysis
Government Family Planning Programs
homa
hoodfar
Huda Sharawi
idealism
islamic
Islamic Family Law
Joseph 2000b
kinship systems
Large Families
law
Marriage Cohorts
Middle Eastern sociology
Modern Family
national
National Family Planning Program
Patriarchal Connectivity
Patrilateral Parallel Cousins
planning
population policy research
program
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Successful Family Planning Programs
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transnational family studies
Tunisian Women
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415613415
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Explores, from a historical comparative perspective, the globalization of dominant myths of ‘modern’ family and society, and their effects on families in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia uniquely contributing to sociological debates about globalization.
Dr. Kathryn Yount is an associate professor of Global Health and Sociology at Emory University and has conducted research on gender and the family in Egypt and the Middle East since 1995. She has received grants for this work from Emory, as well as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Emory University, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation to Johns Hopkins University. She has received awards from Emory and the American Public Health Association for her research.
Dr. Hoda Rashad is Director and Research Professor of the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo and conducted a large body of research on development issues. She is a member of WHO Commission on "Social Determinants of Health", and the Council of the International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). In Egypt, She is member of the Senate (El Shoura Council), one of the two parliamentary bodies in Egypt. She also serves on the National Council for Women, which reports to the President of Egypt.
