Modernizing Gender

Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 1588261719

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Modernizing Women by Valentine M. Moghadam Pdf

Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."

Author : Leila Marie Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00620477A

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Modernizing Gender by Leila Marie Harris Pdf

Author : Wilson Chege
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656429531

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Development Discourse, Modernization Theory, and Gender by Wilson Chege Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, , language: English, abstract: The contemporary world has experienced a focus on development as a core influence on social, economic, and political spheres. Equating the preoccupation with development to a discourse, Escobar (86-91) notes the interpretation of societal development as a technical problem requiring rational decisionmaking and management entrusted to a group of people. How such people conceptualize development has an impact on various groups in society. In this case, a male-dominated outlook on development poses various effects on women, explorable through exploring the various theoretical foundations on development (Lindio- MacGovern and Isidor 35). Several important theories conceptualized over the past half a century form the main ideas surrounding development, one of which is the modernization theory. Through taking the perspective of gendered development in which development affects men and women differently, the present study analyzes impacts of development based on the modernization theory and global capitalism on women. The study relies on scholarly works covering development, gendered development, modernization theory, and global capitalism. The approach to the discussion entails an overview of development and modernization theory with a focus on the first world-third world divide. This discussion of development frameworks then ushers in an analysis of how such development impacts women. The main theme under investigation is gendered development dwelling on the fate of women, with the central argument being that development and paradigmatic development theories create opportunities and hindrances for the development of women. [...]

Author : Adam C. Stanley
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807154939

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Modernizing Tradition by Adam C. Stanley Pdf

In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women necessarily filled men's roles in factories and other jobs during the war, those who continued to lead active working lives after World War I risked being called "modern women." Far from a compliment, this derogatory label encompassed everything society found threatening about women's new place in public life: smoking, working women who preferred independence and sexual freedom to a traditional role in the home. Society felt threatened by the image of the "modern woman," yet also realized that conceptions of femininity needed to accommodate the cultural changes brought about by the Great War. In Modernizing Tradition, Adam C. Stanley explores how interwar French and German popular culture used commercial images to redefine femininity in a way that granted women some access to modern life without encouraging the assertion of female independence. Examining advertisements, articles, and cartoons, as well as department store publicity materials from the popular press of each nation, Stanley reveals how the media attempted to convince women that--with the help of newly available consumer goods such as washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners--being a mother or a housewife could be empowering, even liberating. A life devoted to the home, these images promised, need not be an unmitigated return to old-fashioned tradition but could offer a rewarding lifestyle based on the wonders and benefits of modern technology. Stanley shows that the media carefully limited women's association with modernity to those activities that reinforced women's traditional roles or highlighted their continued dependence on masculine guidance, expertise, and authority. In this cross-national study, Stanley brings into sharp relief issues of gender and consumerism and reveals that, despite the larger political differences between France and Germany, gender ideals in the two countries remained virtually identical between the world wars. That these concepts of gender stayed static over the course of two decades--years when nearly every other aspect of society and culture seemed to be in constant flux--attests to their extraordinary power as a force in French and German society.

Author : Anne W. Esacove
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199933617

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Modernizing Sexuality by Anne W. Esacove Pdf

Stepping outside the established boundaries of HIV scholarship, 'Modernizing Sexuality' illustrates the ways in which Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity come together in U.S. prevention policy, and how they actually exacerbate HIV risk, particularly for women.

Author : Margaret O'Brien,Karin Wall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319429700

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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality by Margaret O'Brien,Karin Wall Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers’ home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societies. The book will be of particular interest to scholars in comparing western societies and welfare states as well as to scholars seeking to understand changing work-life policies and family life in societies with different social and historical pathways.

Author : Catherine Virginia Scott
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555876641

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Gender and Development by Catherine Virginia Scott Pdf

This provocative critique of both theory and practice goes beyond the "women in development" approach to explore fundamental reconceptualizations of tradition, modernity, masculinity, femininity, revolution, and development.

Author : Janet Newman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761969896

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Modernizing Governance by Janet Newman Pdf

"Explores the politics and policies of New Labour and asks how far they represent a shift in the governance of the UK." - back cover.

Author : Katja Zvan Elliott
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781477302446

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Modernizing Patriarchy by Katja Zvan Elliott Pdf

Morocco is hailed by academics, international NGO workers, and the media as a trailblazer in women’s rights and legal reforms. The country is considered a model for other countries in the Middle East and North African region, but has Morocco made as much progress as experts and government officials claim? In Modernizing Patriarchy, Katja Žvan Elliott examines why women’s rights advances are lauded in Morocco in theory but are often not recognized in reality, despite the efforts of both Islamist and secular feminists. In Morocco, female literacy rates remain among the lowest in the region; many women are victims of gender-based violence despite legal reforms; and girls as young as twelve are still engaged to adult men, despite numerous reforms. Based on extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork in Oued al-Ouliya, Modernizing Patriarchy offers a window into the life of Moroccan Muslim women who, though often young and educated, find it difficult to lead a dignified life in a country where they are expected to have only one destiny: that of wife and mother. Žvan Elliott exposes their struggles with modernity and the legal reforms that are supposedly ameliorating their lives. In a balanced approach, she also presents male voices and their reasons for criticizing the prevailing women’s rights discourse. Compelling and insightful, Modernizing Patriarchy exposes the rarely talked about reality of Morocco’s approach toward reform.

Author : Catherine V. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1685853870

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Gender and Development by Catherine V. Scott Pdf

Scott's provocative critique of development theory and practice demonstrates that many prevailing ideas about development, dependency, capitalism, and socialism are anchored in social constructions of gender differences.

Author : Teresa A. Meade,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470692820

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A Companion to Gender History by Teresa A. Meade,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Pdf

A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.

Author : Shireen T. Hunter,Huma Malick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313040276

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Modernization, Democracy, and Islam by Shireen T. Hunter,Huma Malick Pdf

The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion, but factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world. The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion—Islam—but rather factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world. The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factors—some intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some external—that contribute to Islam's current predicament. Contrary to much prevailing thought and opinion, Islam is neither monolithic nor impervious to change. It is neither anti-democratic nor inherently anti-modernization. Islam itself, as this book shows, is not the root cause of the malaise of the Islamic world.

Author : Mina Roces
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782846949

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Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas by Mina Roces Pdf

Explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of politics, this book shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of nationhood and national identities in Asia and the Americas.

Author : Ronald Inglehart,Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521529506

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Rising Tide by Ronald Inglehart,Pippa Norris Pdf

The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology.

Author : Susan K. Besse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469615271

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Restructuring Patriarchy by Susan K. Besse Pdf

Susan K. Besse broadens our understanding of the political by establishing the relevance of gender for the construction of state hegemony in Brazil after World War I. Restructuring Patriarchy demonstrates that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas's Estado Novo depended to a large extent on the reorganization of social relations in the private sphere. New expectations and patterns of behavior for women emerged in postwar Brazil from heated debates between men and women, housewives and career women, feminists and antifeminists, reformist professionals and conservative clerics, and industrialists and bureaucrats. But as urban middle- and upper-class women challenged patriarchal authority at home and assumed new roles in public, prominent intellectuals, professionals, and politicians defined and imposed new 'hygienic,' rational, and scientific gender norms. Thus, modernization of the gender system within Brazil's rising urban-industrial society accommodated new necessities and opportunities for women without fundamentally changing the gender inequality that underlay the larger structure of social inequality in Brazil.