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Yalla Feminists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Yalla Feminists

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-07
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women's rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of religious freedom, discriminatory legal frameworks, and chronic insecurity. The strongest indicator of peace in any country is in its treatment of women, but the story of women's rights in the region is one of patchy progress and major regress. Today, women are experiencing a massive backlash against their rights and fundamental freedoms. And yet, there is hope. Feminists--particularly young feminists--from the Arab region fight tirelessly for their rights and are leading movements around the region pushing for change. This book looks at the last 50 years of Arab feminism with a view to understanding what the next 50 years will hold. Built from hundreds of firsthand accounts with women in the region, this book brings together voices across the 22 Arab states to present new pathways to women's rights and gender equality.

Freedom on the Frontlines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Freedom on the Frontlines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-10
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Afghan women were at the forefront of global agendas in late 2001, fueled by a mix of media coverage, humanitarian intervention and military operations. Calls for "liberating" Afghan women were widespread. Women's roles in Afghanistan have long been politically divisive, marked by struggles between modernization and tradition. Women, politics, and the state have always been intertwined in Afghanistan, and conflicts have been fueled by attempts to challenge or change women's status. It may appear that we have come full circle twenty years later, in late 2021, when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban once more. Women's rights in Afghanistan have been stripped away, and any gains--however tenuous--now appear lost. Today, the country navigates both a humanitarian and a human rights crisis. This book measures the rhetoric of liberation and the physical and ideological occupations of Afghanistan over the twenty-year period from 2001 through 2021 through the voices, perspectives, and experiences of those who are implicated in this reality--Afghan women.

Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan
  • Language: en

Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-08-26
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Afghanistan has become home to one of the largest gender-focused aid interventions in the aftermath of 9/11, with foreign aid agencies using Afghan women as a barometer of social change and political progress. Through the lens of gendered aid intervention, this book seeks to understand how the promise of freedom has largely fallen short--for both men and women. Topics include the tenuous relationship between social indicators and aid dynamics; the advancing of the gender agenda through Afghanistan's 2005 parliamentary elections; and the journey from policy formulation to interpretation to implementation through the voices of policy-makers, policy implementers, NGO leaders, Afghanistan specialists and ordinary Afghan women and men.

Muslim Women in War and Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Muslim Women in War and Crisis

In the Eyes of many Westerners, Muslim women are hidden behind a veil of negative stereotypes that portray them as either oppressed, subservient wives and daughters or, more recently, as potential terrorists. Yet many Muslim women defy these stereotypes by taking active roles in their families and communities and working to create a more just society. This book introduces eighteen Muslim women activsts from the United States and Canada who have worked in fields from social services, to marital counseling, to political advocacy, in order to further social justice within the Muslim community and in the greater North American society. --

Women Rising
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Women Rising

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-09
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Yalla Feminists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Yalla Feminists

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-20
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women's rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of religious freedom, discriminatory legal frameworks, and chronic insecurity. The strongest indicator of peace in any country is in its treatment of women, but the story of women's rights in the region is one of patchy progress and major regress. Today, women are experiencing a massive backlash against their rights and fundamental freedoms. And yet, there is hope. Feminists--particularly young feminists--from the Arab region fight tirelessly for their rights and are leading movements around the region pushing for change. This book looks at the last 50 years of Arab feminism with a view to understanding what the next 50 years will hold. Built from hundreds of firsthand accounts with women in the region, this book brings together voices across the 22 Arab states to present new pathways to women's rights and gender equality.

Globalizing Afghanistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Globalizing Afghanistan

DIVInternational scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b/div

Afghanistan Gozargah
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

Afghanistan Gozargah

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Do What Lights You Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Do What Lights You Up

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

What excites you? What's your purpose? What matters to you? What do you long for? What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Do What Lights You Up invites you to recreate, redefine and retell your story so that you can unapologetically create a life you love and share your magic with the world. It will provide you with thought-provoking questions, open-ended prompts, and creative exercises thoughtfully designed to show you how to: - Uncover who you are and who you aspire to be. - Define what success on your terms means. - Eclipse fear, limiting beliefs, and inner criticism. - Discover your Zone of Genius. - Create a compelling vision for your life + work. - Recommit to what truly matters to you in every area of your life. - Find your true passion and true work in the world, regardless of any job you do or role you play. - Take unapologetic action towards your dreams.

The Political Economy of Violence Against Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

The Political Economy of Violence Against Women

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Yet, when women enjoy good social and economic status they are less vulnerable to violence across all societies. This book develops a political economy approach to understanding violence against women - from the household to the transnational level - accounting for its globally increasing scale and brutality.