Modernizing women gender and social change in the Middle East

Moghadam's influential study of gender dynamics and social processes in the Middle East has been fully updated to reflect a decade of major changes - including shifts in development strategy and population policy, the rise of a reform movement in Iran incorporating both Islamic and secular femi...

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Main Author: Moghadam, Valentine M. 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. Lynne Rienner 2003
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Recasting the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan
  • Economic development, state policy, and women's employment
  • Reforms, revolutions, and the woman question
  • Patriarchy, and the changing family
  • Islamist movements and women's responses
  • Iran: from Islamization to Islamic feminism, and beyond?
  • Afghanistan: revolution, reaction, and attempted reconstruction
  • All that is solid melts into air.