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Political projects of modern nation-states, the specificities of their nationalist histories and the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis diverse nationalisms are addressed in this volume with respect to their implications and consequences for women through a series of case studies.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0333526961
ISBN13:9780333526965
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:276 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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State policies and women in the Middle east
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The book insists that women in the Middle Eat must be studie through the differing plitical projects on nation-sate, with their distinct histories, relatioship to colonialism and the West, class politics, ideological uses of an Islamic idiom, and struggles over the roleof Islamic law in state legal appartues. Linking attemptsat family reform and women's rights to the efforts of the modern state to break up the autonomy of local kin roups and thus enhancetheir own power, to mobilize labor forces or political constituencies to meet national needs, or most recently to meet the requirments of international develoment agencies.
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