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With studies on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, this collection presents a theoretical framework on the study of women's empowerment amid the transformations that have shaped the social and political fabrics of Arab societies.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agency and Women’s Empowerment
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Challenge and Progress Post Arab-Spring
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marwa Shalaby is the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights in the Middle East Program at James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, USA. Her research focuses on comparative politics and research methodology, with a concentration on Middle Eastern politics, gender politics, and democratization.
Valentine M. Moghadam is Director of the International Affairs Program, and Professor of Sociology, at Northeastern University, USA. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam studied in Canada and the U.S. She is the author of Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005, winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2009, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empowering Women after the Arab Spring
Editors: Marwa Shalaby, Valentine M. Moghadam
Series Title: Comparative Feminist Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55747-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56792-5Published: 10 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55747-6Published: 09 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2752-3209
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3217
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Middle Eastern Politics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies