Modernizing Women
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Modernizing Women
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Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Modernizing Women written by Valentine M. Moghadam and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Muslim women categories.
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 sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
Modernizing Patriarchy
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Author : Katja Zvan Elliott
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Modernizing Patriarchy written by Katja Zvan Elliott and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Political Science categories.
Morocco is hailed by academics, international NGO workers, and the media as a trailblazer in women’s rights and legal reforms. The country is considered a model for other countries in the Middle East and North African region, but has Morocco made as much progress as experts and government officials claim? In Modernizing Patriarchy, Katja Žvan Elliott examines why women’s rights advances are lauded in Morocco in theory but are often not recognized in reality, despite the efforts of both Islamist and secular feminists. In Morocco, female literacy rates remain among the lowest in the region; many women are victims of gender-based violence despite legal reforms; and girls as young as twelve are still engaged to adult men, despite numerous reforms. Based on extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork in Oued al-Ouliya, Modernizing Patriarchy offers a window into the life of Moroccan Muslim women who, though often young and educated, find it difficult to lead a dignified life in a country where they are expected to have only one destiny: that of wife and mother. Žvan Elliott exposes their struggles with modernity and the legal reforms that are supposedly ameliorating their lives. In a balanced approach, she also presents male voices and their reasons for criticizing the prevailing women’s rights discourse. Compelling and insightful, Modernizing Patriarchy exposes the rarely talked about reality of Morocco’s approach toward reform.
Modernizing Women
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Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Modernizing Women written by Valentine M. Moghadam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Modernizing Women
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Author : Kali Nath Jha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Modernizing Women written by Kali Nath Jha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Bihar (India) categories.
Articles with reference chiefly to urban women in the state of Bihar, India.
Modern Women Modernizing Men
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Author : Ruth Compton Brouwer
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2002
Modern Women Modernizing Men written by Ruth Compton Brouwer and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Using the experiences of three women in colonial India, Korea and sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, this book explores how professionalism, religion and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.
Gender State And Medicine In Highland Ecuador
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Author : A. Kim Clark
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2012
Gender State And Medicine In Highland Ecuador written by A. Kim Clark and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
In 1921 Matilde Hidalgo became the first woman physician to graduate from the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Hidalgo was also the first woman to vote in a national election and the first to hold public office. Author Kim Clark relates the stories of Matilde Hidalgo and other women who successfully challenged newly instituted Ecuadorian state programs in the wake of the Liberal Revolution of 1895. New laws, while they did not specifically outline women’s rights, left loopholes wherein women could contest entry into education systems and certain professions and vote in elections. As Clark demonstrates, many of those who seized these opportunities were unattached women who were socially and economically disenfranchised. Political and social changes during the liberal period drew new groups into the workforce. Women found novel opportunities to pursue professions where they did not compete directly with men. Training women for work meant expanding secular education systems and normal schools. Healthcare initiatives were also introduced that employed and targeted women to reduce infant mortality, eradicate venereal diseases, and regulate prostitution. Many of these state programs attempted to control women’s behavior under the guise of morality and honor. Yet highland Ecuadorian women used them to better their lives and to gain professional training, health care, employment, and political rights. As they engaged state programs and used them for their own purposes, these women became modernizers and agents of change, winning freedoms for themselves and future generations.
Modernizing Patriarchy
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Modernizing Patriarchy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
Becoming Modern
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Author : Birgitte Søland
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Becoming Modern written by Birgitte Søland and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Social Science categories.
In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "ordinary" young women determined to create "modern" lives for themselves. These young women cut their hair, wore short skirts, worked for wages, sought entertainment outside the home, and developed new attitudes toward domesticity, sexuality, and their bodies. Historians have generally located the origins of this shift in women's lives in the upheavals of World War I. Birgitte Søland's exquisite social and cultural history suggests, however, that they are to be found not in the war itself, but in much broader social and economic changes. Søland's engrossing chronicle draws on a rich variety of sources--including popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories--to examine how notions of femininity and womanhood were reshaped in Denmark, a small, largely agrarian country that remained neutral during the war. It explores changes in the female body and personality, the forays of young women into the public sphere, the redefinition of female respectability, and new understandings of married life as evidenced in both cultural discourses and social practices. Though specific in its focus, the book raises broad comparative questions as it challenges common assumptions about the social and sexual upheavals that characterized the Western world in the postwar decade. In a remarkably engaging fashion, it shows why the end of World War I did not lead to the return of "normal" life in the 1920s.
Modernization Of Women In The 19th Century
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Author : Patricia Branca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Modernization Of Women In The 19th Century written by Patricia Branca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Europe categories.
From Patriarchy To Empowerment
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Author : Valentine Moghadam
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2007-06-18
From Patriarchy To Empowerment written by Valentine Moghadam and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-18 with Social Science categories.
This rich anthology offers twenty studies on instances of emerging social justice and women’s empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. These areas are home to huge populations where women’s rights have withered under patriarchal rule, and many are beset by civic unrest. The book shows how changes are occurring as flood tides of capital, people, and information erode entrenched gender regimes, giving birth to energetic and forward-thinking women’s movements. Highly original, conceptually sophisticated, and imminently readable, this book illustrates how local women are transforming their collective fates by questioning their status, forming alliances, demanding full participation in economic development and the political process, and mining opportunities afforded by globalization.