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Double-Edged Politics on Women's Rights in the Mena Region

Double-Edged Politics on Women's Rights in the Mena Region

Dahlerup, Drude
Darhour, Hanane

Paperback

Series: Gender and Politics

Religion General General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030277372
ISBN13: 9783030277376
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 29 2020
Pages: 311
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women's activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women's position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women's rights remains ambiguous and double-edged.

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