Arab Women's Solidarity Association
Arab Women’s Solidarity Association
associational life Middle East
Bahraini Women
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Census
Civil Society
cultural ideal
Dense
Egyptian Women
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Face To Face
female collective action Middle East
feminist movements analysis
Gender Equality
gender politics MENA
Huda Shaarawi
ICPD
informal women
Kuwaiti Women
legal status women
Liberatory Women's Movement
Liberatory Women’s Movement
Make Up
Married Women
MENA Region
Middle East
MOSA
NGO Document
Personal Status Law
PVOs
social change gender
Socio-economic Development
state-society relations
UN
Woman's NGOs
Woman’s NGOs
women activists
Women's Groups
women's NGOs
Women's Organizations
Women’s Groups
Women’s Organizations
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739105
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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With the creation of the modern nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa, women have been and continue to be manipulated to represent a cultural ideal of perfect womanhood. This is often greatly at odds with the realities of women's lives and aspirations. However, individual women, through careful manipulation of gender relations, often succeed in casting aside the culturally accepted bonds which diminish their lives.Even so, women in groups are deemed unacceptable unless they conform to state mandates. In many countries in the Middle East, women are only legally permitted to form groups which are charitable organizations concerned with the welfare of the disabled or the handicapped. Clearly women in groups are perceived as a threat by the state.This challenging book examines the nature of the relationship between both women and the state and men and the state. It presents a balanced mix of theoretical and empirical research which analyzes both the formal and informal ways in which women have organized themselves, and been organized, in Arab society.
Dawn Chatty Senior Research Officer,Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford Annika Rabo Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Linköping University, Sweden
