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Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies - Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies - Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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As a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and
North Africa in late 2010 and 2011, the issue of state public
violence against both men and women dominated the headlines. But
gender-based violence, in both its public and private forms, has
for the most part remained unnoticed and is often ignored. The
forms that this kind of violence can take are influenced by
cultural norms and religious beliefs, as well as economic and
political circumstances. In 'Gender and Violence in Islamic
Societies', violence is perceived not only as physical harm, but
includes various forms of violence directed at women because they
are women. These include segregation in the workplace and limiting
women's access to wealth, gender stereotyping in the media and
education, verbal aggression and humiliation, control of women's
finances and income, forced veiling, restricted access to education
and health. Gender-based violence is thus analysed in its various
forms and localities, encompassing both the public and private
spheres: within the family, the general community,at work and in
various state institutions. Here, Zahia Smail Salhi brings together
a wide range of examples of gender-based violence across the Middle
East and North Africa, from discrimination in the workplace in
Jordan to the physical abuse of underage domestic workers in
Morocco, and from psychological and verbal violence against women
in Tunisia and Algeria to the practice of female genital mutilation
in Egypt. The evidence demonstrates that the violence, far from
being of universal character across the region, is instead diverse,
in both its intensity and in the processes of addressing such
violence.
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