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Democracy and authoritarianism in the Arab world.
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ISBN: 1588264610 9781588264619 1588264866 9781588264862 Year: 2007 Publisher: Boulder Rienner


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Embodying geopolitics : generations of women's activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
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ISBN: 0520957652 9780520957657 9780520281752 9780520281769 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women’s struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women’s activism and its effects.


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What kind of liberation? : women and the occupation of Iraq
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ISBN: 1282772406 9786612772405 0520942175 9780520942172 9780520257290 0520257294 9780520265813 0520265815 9781282772403 6612772409 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation-especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing unemployment, violence, and seclusion. Moreover, the book exposes the gap between rhetoric that placed women center stage and the present reality of their diminishing roles in the "new Iraq." Based on interviews with Iraqi women's rights activists, international policy makers, and NGO workers and illustrated with photographs taken by Iraqi women, What Kind of Liberation? speaks through an astonishing array of voices. Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt correct the widespread view that the country's violence, sectarianism, and systematic erosion of women's rights come from something inherent in Muslim, Middle Eastern, or Iraqi culture. They also demonstrate how in spite of competing political agendas, Iraqi women activists are resolutely pressing to be part of the political transition, reconstruction, and shaping of the new Iraq.


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Women and war in the Middle East : transnational perspectives
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ISBN: 1350224057 1848138040 1282453513 9786612453519 1848131879 9781848131873 9781848138049 1848131852 1848131860 9781848131859 9781848131866 9781282453517 6612453516 Year: 2009 Publisher: London, England : [London, England] : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East.


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Rethinking gender in revolutions and resistance : lessons from the Arab world
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ISBN: 9781783602834 9781783602827 9781783602841 1783602848 9781783602858 1783602856 178360283X 1783602821 9781783602865 178360283X 1350222313 Year: 2015 Publisher: London : Zed Books,

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How political turmoil and dissent are re-shaping gender roles in the Arab world.

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