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This book examines women, money, and political participation in the
Middle East and North Africa focusing on women’s capacity to
engage local political systems. In particular, it considers whether
and how this engagement is facilitated through specific types of
financial flows from abroad. Arab countries are well-known rentier
states, and so a prime destination for foreign aid, worker
remittances, and oil-related investment. Alongside other
factors these external monies have elicited dramatic shifts in
gender-related social norms and expectations both from the state
and the domestic population, affording certain women the
opportunity to enter the political arena, while leaving
others behind. The research presented here expands the discussion
of women in rentier political economy and highlights their roles as
participants and agents within regional templates for economic
development.
This book examines women, money, and political participation in the
Middle East and North Africa focusing on women's capacity to engage
local political systems. In particular, it considers whether and
how this engagement is facilitated through specific types of
financial flows from abroad. Arab countries are well-known rentier
states, and so a prime destination for foreign aid, worker
remittances, and oil-related investment. Alongside other factors
these external monies have elicited dramatic shifts in
gender-related social norms and expectations both from the state
and the domestic population, affording certain women the
opportunity to enter the political arena, while leaving others
behind. The research presented here expands the discussion of women
in rentier political economy and highlights their roles as
participants and agents within regional templates for economic
development.
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the
social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American
women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The
authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated
in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim
identity in uniquely American ways. Transcending contemporary
political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The
Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns
beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf
itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting
import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding
individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy,
exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political
practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in
the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women
themselves. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, and
the authors smoothly integrate the results of nearly two thousand
survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine
states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews with Muslim women living in
the United States bolster the arguments put forward by the authors
to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating
topic. Ultimately, the authors argue, women's experiences with
identity and boundary construction through their head-covering
practices carry important political consequences that may well shed
light on the future of the United States as a model of democratic
pluralism.
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the
social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American
women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The
authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated
in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim
identity in uniquely American ways. Transcending contemporary
political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The
Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns
beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf
itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting
import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding
individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy,
exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political
practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in
the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women
themselves. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, and
the authors smoothly integrate the results of nearly two thousand
survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine
states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews with Muslim women living in
the United States bolster the arguments put forward by the authors
to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating
topic. Ultimately, the authors argue, women's experiences with
identity and boundary construction through their head-covering
practices carry important political consequences that may well shed
light on the future of the United States as a model of democratic
pluralism.
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