Women in Middle East & North Africa – Agents of Change – Book

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Fatima Sadiqi – sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr

Women in the Middle
East and North Africa

Agents of Change

Edited
by Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji

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Price: £26.99

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Binding/Format: Paperback

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ISBN: 978-0-415-57321-4

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Publish Date: 15th July 2010

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Imprint: Routledge

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Pages: 204 pages

This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region
shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and
pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion, a
smooth co-existence of tradition and modernity, a transitional stage in
development, and multilingualism/multiculturalism.

Experts from within the region and from outside provide both theoretical
angles and case studies, drawing on fieldwork from Egypt, Oman, Palestine,
Israel, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Addressing the
historical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and legal issues in the
region, the chapters cover five major aspects of women’s agency:

• political agency;

• civil society activism;

• legal reform;

• cultural and social agencies;

• religious and symbolic agencies.

Bringing to light often marginalized topics and issues, the book underlines
the importance of respecting specificities when judging societies and hints at
possible ways of promoting the MENA region. As such, it is a valuable addition
to existing literature in the field of political science, sociology, and
women’s studies.