Organizing Women - Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Release date:	1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Dawn Chatty • Annika Rabo
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-1-85973-910-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-85973-910-5
Barcode:	9781859739105

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