Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women)

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ISBN 10: 1859739105 / ISBN 13: 9781859739105

Published by - -, 1997

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Synopsis:

With the creation of the modern nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa, women have been and continue to be manipulated to represent a cultural ideal of perfect womanhood. This is often greatly at odds with the realities of women's lives and aspirations. However, individual women, through careful manipulation of gender relations, often succeed in casting aside the culturally accepted bonds which diminish their lives.Even so, women in groups are deemed unacceptable unless they conform to state mandates. In many countries in the Middle East, women are only legally permitted to form groups which are charitable organizations concerned with the welfare of the disabled or the handicapped. Clearly women in groups are perceived as a threat by the state.This challenging book examines the nature of the relationship between both women and the state and men and the state. It presents a balanced mix of theoretical and empirical research which analyzes both the formal and informal ways in which women have organized themselves, and been organized, in Arab society.

About the Author: Dawn Chatty Senior Research Officer,Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford Annika Rabo Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Linköping University, Sweden

Bibliographic Details

Title: Organizing Women: Formal and Informal ...
Publisher: - -
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good