Women Civil Society And Policy Change In The Arab World

Author : Nasser Yassin,Robert Hoppe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030020897

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Women, Civil Society and Policy Change in the Arab World by Nasser Yassin,Robert Hoppe Pdf

This book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies. In particular, the book studies the drive towards a change of policies that affect women and their well-being. It does so through the lens of women civil society activism and through analysis of cases of policy reform in three Arab countries namely: Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen. The book addresses the tension between policy change and state repression; between Islamic traditional/religious values and civil/secular ones; between the formal and the informal channels for policy-making. One of the first books to reflect on the capability of Arab civil society actors to influence change, it traces recent policy evolution from before the Arab Uprisings in 2011 until the present day, and describes the limited ability of civil society actors to induce change and substantiate it over recent decades. The book explores the use of policy theories in the analysis of cases, and reflects on the possibility of applying and “adapting” those concepts, largely applied in the Western world, to encompass policymaking in the Arab world without conceptual 'overstretch'.

Author : Sahar Khamis,Amel Mili
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319607351

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Arab Women's Activism and Socio-Political Transformation by Sahar Khamis,Amel Mili Pdf

This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the social struggle to achieve gender equality and fight all forms of injustice and discrimination against women; and the legal struggle to chart new laws which can safeguard both the political and the social gains. The contributors argue that while the political upheavals were oftentimes more prevalent and visible, they should not overshadow the parallel social and legal revolutions which are equally important, due to their long-term impacts on the region. The chapters shed light on the intersections, overlaps and divergences between these simultaneous, continuous gendered struggles and unpacks their complexities and multiple implications, locally, regionally, and internationally, across different countries and through different phases.

Author : OECD,Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264224636

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Women in Public Life Gender, Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by OECD,Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research Pdf

This report provides a comparative overview of the policies affecting women’s participation in public life across the MENA region. It examines the existing barriers to women’s access to public decision-making positions, and provides a cross-country assessment of current instruments and institutions.

Author : Mona Yacoubian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democratization
ISBN : UOM:39015063093523

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Promoting Middle East Democracy II by Mona Yacoubian Pdf

Author : Fatima Sadiqi,Moha Ennaji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136970375

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa by Fatima Sadiqi,Moha Ennaji Pdf

This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in development, and multilingualism/multiculturalism. Experts from within the region and from outside provide both theoretical angles and case studies, drawing on fieldwork from Egypt, Oman, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Addressing the historical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and legal issues in the region, the chapters cover five major aspects of women’s agency: political agency civil society activism legal reform cultural and social agencies religious and symbolic agencies. Bringing to light often marginalized topics and issues, the book underlines the importance of respecting specificities when judging societies and hints at possible ways of promoting the MENA region. As such, it is a valuable addition to existing literature in the field of political science, sociology, and women’s studies.

Author : Wanda Krause
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857722508

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Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East by Wanda Krause Pdf

In the Middle East, and in Egypt in particular, there has always been a tendency to accord complete supremacy to the authority and might of the state, and to see 'society' as a separate, powerless entity. However, after the uprising of 2011, this assumption was turned on its head. And it is the wide range of political activity beyond the remit of the official state where Wanda Krause locates a dynamic potential for political change from the bottom up. She looks in particular at the influential role of women's private voluntary organisations in Egypt in shaping concepts of civil society and democracy. Exploring both secular and 'Islamist' organisations, she offers a steadfast critique of the view that Islamic women activists are insignificant, 'backward' or 'uncivil'. Krause's examination of women activists in Egypt today is vital for those interested in Middle East and Gender Studies, as well as those researching the wider issues of civil society and democratisation.

Author : Eleanor Abdella Doumato,Marsha Pripstein Posusney
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588261344

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Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East by Eleanor Abdella Doumato,Marsha Pripstein Posusney Pdf

This work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures.

Author : Larbi Touaf,Soumia Boutkhil,Chourouq Nasri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319499260

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North African Women after the Arab Spring by Larbi Touaf,Soumia Boutkhil,Chourouq Nasri Pdf

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women’s rights. Although women played a key role in the success of the uprisings that wiped out long ruling oligarchies across the region, they remain excluded from decision-making circles and the formal political and electoral apparatus. Women's rights are written off constitution drafts, and issues of gender equality are hardly addressed. The chapters that compose this volume present research and reflections from different perspectives to help the reader get a better picture of the profound turmoil that beset this part of the so-called “Arab” World. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss a host of questions related to women and gender in the Arab world and address the broader question of why women's efforts and momentum during the revolution did not seem to pay off the same way they did for men. This book provides an assessment of the situation from the inside. It is intended to help the general public as well as the academic world comprehend the significance of what is going on in this key part of the Islamic World.

Author : Elena Maestri,Annemarie Profanter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319627946

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Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes by Elena Maestri,Annemarie Profanter Pdf

This volume explores the dialogue between Arab media and global developments in the information age, looking at the influence of new technologies in Arab societies and the evolving role of Arab women in ‘old’ and ‘new’ media. By gathering together contributions from both Arab and non-Arab scholars alike, a timely and important collection is presented that sheds new light on the growing involvement, role and image of Arab women in the media.

Author : Muhamad Olimat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317937388

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Arab Spring and Arab Women by Muhamad Olimat Pdf

This volume examines the role of Arab women in Arab Spring and their contribution to the ongoing process of change sweeping the region. The book begins with an examination of the process of democratization and its impediments in the Arab World since the Second World War. It then looks at the conditions that led to the upsurge of the so-called Arab Spring. Finally, it underscores women’s role as participants, organizers, leaders, but also as victims. The main thesis of the book is that while Arab women were an integral part of the revolutionary efforts within the Arab Spring paradigm, they did not benefit from their sacrifices. Although they continue to be part of the process of change, their gains, rights and scope for participation are still limited. If the expansion of women’s participation and the scope of their rights do not seem to be a priority for revolutionary forces, women have made remarkable achievements, especially in some Arab Spring countries such as Yemen and Libya. The book includes case studies of some Arab Spring countries and other countries influenced by developments: Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. It calls on revolutionary and reformist forces to give special attention to issues related to Arab women, as they are an indispensable pillar in the process of reform, development, peace and stability in the Middle East.

Author : Pernille Arenfeldt,Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617973536

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Mapping Arab Women's Movements by Pernille Arenfeldt,Nawar Al-Hassan Golley Pdf

This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women's organizations and informal women's groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab diaspora in the United States, Mapping Arab Women's Movements contributes to delineating similarities and differences between historical and contemporary efforts toward greater gender justice. The authors explore the origins of women's movements, trace their development during the past century, and address the impact of counter-movements, alliances, and international collaborations within the region and beyond, providing accessible accounts for scholars and others interested in the Middle East and in women's movements in other settings.

Author : Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135911065

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Governing Women by Anne Marie Goetz Pdf

Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.

Author : W. Krause
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349376132

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Women in Civil Society by W. Krause Pdf

Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism and Networking in the UAE investigates how women in an Arab Gulf country prove to play a key role in how civil society takes shape with and against one another through case studies on women in state-run organizations, Islamic organizations, and networks.

Author : Nicholas S. Hopkins,Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020156753

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Arab Society by Nicholas S. Hopkins,Saad Eddin Ibrahim Pdf

This all-new edition of the classic Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, containing thirty new articles by leading scholars, examines Arab society in the 1990s. Articles by scholars from many countries explore such subjects as Arab unity and identity; demographic processes; the roles of men, women, and family; rural social change; political developments; and religious change. For students, scholars, and general readers alike, Arab Society offers up-to-date analysis and discussion of the social, political, and economic transformations that face the region today.

Author : Suad Joseph,Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812206906

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Women and Power in the Middle East by Suad Joseph,Susan Slyomovics Pdf

The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. Together they seek to build a framework for understanding broad patterns of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Challenging questions are addressed throughout. What roles have women played in politics in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements, revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for women in this region and how emerging national states there have dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions that govern their lives. Designed for courses in Middle East, women's, and cultural studies, Women and Power in the Middle East offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world.