Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia
and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights
than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges
existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the
adoption of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries. Based on
extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original
database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North
Africa, this accessible study analyzes how women's rights are used
both instrumentally and symbolically to advance the political goals
of authoritarian regimes as leverage in attempts to side-line
religious extremists. It shows how Islamist political parties have
been forced to dramatically change their positions on women's
rights to ensure political survival. In an original contribution to
the study of women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa,
Tripp reveals how women's rights movements have capitalized on
moments of political turmoil to defend and advance their cause.
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