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Modernizing Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Modernizing Women

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 sociologica...

Globalizing Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Globalizing Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-02-16
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Winner of the Victoria Schuck award given by the American Political Science Association and an Honorable Mention in the Distinguished Book Award given by the Political Economy of World Systems section of the American Sociological Association Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of feminism. Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of glo...

After the Arab Uprisings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

After the Arab Uprisings

A holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests, this accessible study highlights the salience of regime type, civil society, women's mobilizations, and external intervention across seven countries for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.

Theorizing Revolutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Theorizing Revolutions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In Theorizing Revolutions, some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.

Globalization and Social Movements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Globalization and Social Movements

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-10-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

An inspiring collection that uses case studies and theoretical reflection to contextualise the linkages between collective action theories, social movement practices and the phenomenon of globalisation. All of the perspectives presented will force a rethink of the exact meaning of globalisation and the way in which such insights can be used to advance understanding of basic transformations occurring in the diverse world of the twenty-first century.

Gender and National Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Gender and National Identity

This collection explores the gender dynamic of political movements from both theoretical and political angles, to reveal how nationalism, revolution and Islamization are gendered processes. The book focuses on predominantly Muslim movements, taking examples from several different countries.

Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies

Countries covered in the empirical case studies are Russia, Estonia, Poland, the Czech and Slovak republics, the former East Germany, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

Making Globalization Work for Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Making Globalization Work for Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-28
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

Empowering Women after the Arab Spring
  • Language: en

Empowering Women after the Arab Spring

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.

Patriarchy and Economic Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Patriarchy and Economic Development

Is patriarchy on the decline, or is it merely its form that is changing? What effect does development have on gender relations, and how do patriarchal structures affect the development process?