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This book explores the relations of culture, identity, and women,
providing vivid illustrations from around the world of the
compelling nature of Woman as cultural symbol and Woman as
political pawn in male-directed power struggles.
Identity politics refers to discourses and movements organized
around questions of religious, ethnic, and national identity. This
volume focuses on political cultural movements that are making a
bid for state power, for fundamental juridical change, or for
cultural hegemony. In particular, the contributors explore the
relations of culture, identity, and women, providing vivid
illustrations from around the world of the compelling nature of
Woman as cultural symbol and Woman as political pawn in
male-directed power struggles. The discussions also provide
evidence of women as active participants and as active opponents of
such movements. Taken together, the chapters provide answers to
some pressing questions about these political-cultural movements:
What are their causes? Who are the participants and social groups
that support them? What are their objectives? Why are they
preoccupied with gender and the control of women? The first section
of the book offers theoretical, comparative, and historical
approaches to the study of identity politics. A second section
consists of thirteen case studies spanning Muslim, Christian,
Jewish, and Hindu countries and communities. In the final section,
contributors discuss dilemmas posed by identity politics and the
strategies designed in response.
With studies on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon,
Morocco and Tunisia, this collection presents a theoretical
framework on the study of women's empowerment amid the
transformations that have shaped the social and political fabrics
of Arab societies.
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The Perils of Populism (Hardcover)
Sarah Tobias, Arlene Stein; Contributions by Valentine M. Moghadam, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Khadijah Costley White, …
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From Donald Trump in the U.S. to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor
Orbán in Hungary, and Narendra Modi in India, right-wing populist
leaders have taken power in many parts of the world. While each
country’s populist movement is distinct, they are united by
several key features, including the presence of a boastful
strongman leader and the scapegoating of vulnerable populations,
especially immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and women.
 The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help
diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism
and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy.
Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United
States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of
acclaimed theorists and activists, the volume contributes to a
rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right. Together,
these chapters offer a truly intersectional analysis of the
problem, addressing everything from how populism has thrived in a
“post-truth†era to the ways it appeals to working-class voters
looking for an alternative to neoliberalism. Yet the authors also
find reasons to be hopeful, as they showcase forms of grassroots
feminist activism that challenge right-wing populism by advocating
for racial and economic justice.
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The Perils of Populism (Paperback)
Sarah Tobias, Arlene Stein; Valentine M. Moghadam, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Khadijah Costley White, …
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What is the connection between globalization and social movements?
How have people collectively responded to globalization's economic,
political, and cultural manifestations and challenges? And how are
contemporary social movements and networks affecting the
progression of globalization? This clear and concise book answers
these questions by examining social movements and transnational
networks in the context of globalization in all its forms-economic,
political, cultural, and technological alike. Deftly combining
nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar
Valentine M. Moghadam provides four in-depth case studies: global
feminism and transnational feminist networks; global Islamism
ranging from parliamentary to extremist; the global justice
movement and the World Social Forum; and varieties and gender
dynamics of populisms. In a new chapter, she draws attention to the
emergence and growth of right-wing populist movements, political
parties, and governments, not only in Europe but in the Global
South as well. Defining globalization as a complex process in which
the movement of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and
ideas takes on an increasingly international form, the author shows
how growing physical and electronic mobility has helped to create
dynamic global social movements. Exploring the historical roots of
Islamism, feminism, global justice, and populism, Moghadam also
shows how these movements have been stimulated by relatively recent
globalization processes. She reveals their similarities and
differences, internal differentiation, relationship to
globalization and states, and the opportunities and challenges that
the movements face. Assessing the extent to which the movements
contribute to democracy, or-conversely-endanger it, she considers
prospects for a renewed and more robust form of democracy. Informed
by feminist, world-systems, world polity, and social movement
theories in a seamlessly integrated framework, her work will be
essential reading for all students of globalization.
Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity
and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information
exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities,
globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist
networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build
coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of
feminism.
"Globalizing Women" explains how the negative and positive
aspects of globalization have helped to create transnational
networks of activists and organizations with common agendas.
Sociologist Valentine M. Moghadam discusses six such feminist
networks to analyze the organization, objectives, programs, and
outcomes of these groups in their effort to improve conditions for
women throughout the world. Moghadam also examines how "globalizing
women" are responding to and resisting growing inequalities, the
exploitation of female labor, and patriarchal fundamentalisms. This
book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as
well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational
social movements and organizations in the globalized world.
Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011
accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the
direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation?
Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did
region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings
offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions,
based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society,
gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence.
Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain,
Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako
highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces,
uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and
organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of
external intervention, as key elements in explaining the divergent
outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings, and extending the analysis
to the present day.
Valentine Moghadam's seminal study of the gendered nature of
political and social processes in the Middle East and North Africa
has been fully updated to reflect more than a decade of major
changes. This new edition reflects an emphasis on the impacts of
both globalization and democratization. It also includes entirely
new chapters on the gender dynamics of conflicts in the region, on
women and the Arab Spring, and on the achievements of women's
rights movements. The result is an indispensable contribution to
our understanding of current popular struggles for modernity,
democratisation, and meaningful citizenship.
Valentine Moghadam's seminal study of the gendered nature of
political and social processes in the Middle East and North Africa
has been fully updated to reflect more than a decade of major
changes. This new edition reflects an emphasis on the impacts of
both globalization and democratization. It also includes entirely
new chapters on the gender dynamics of conflicts in the region, on
women and the Arab Spring, and on the achievements of women's
rights movements. The result is an indispensable contribution to
our understanding of current popular struggles for modernity,
democratisation, and meaningful citizenship.
Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011
accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the
direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation?
Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did
region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings
offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions,
based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society,
gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence.
Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain,
Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako
highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces,
uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and
organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of
external intervention, as key elements in explaining the divergent
outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings, and extending the analysis
to the present day.
At the end of the twentieth century, after four world conferences
on women, debates on the impact of economic development on the
lives and status of women - including their life-options and
opportunities for betterment - continue unresolved. Is patriarchy
on the decline, or is it merely its form that is changing? What
effect does development have on gender relations, and how do
patriarchal structures affect the development process?
The chapters in this book were written for a UNU/WIDER research
conference convened to explore two parallel phenomena: the changing
position of women and gender relations and the relevance of the
concept of patriarchy, and the impact of development--and
especially industrialization and wage work--on women and gender.
They address questions through theoretical, historical, and
empirical approaches, and provide critical analysis and macro- and
micro-level data for Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin
America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian
sub-continent, the Nordic region, and Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. Following an introduction and overview (Part 1), the
book is divided into two main parts. Part II offers historical and
theoretical perspectives on the evolution of women's positions in
the course of development, with contributions by Sylvia Walby, John
Lie, Elizabeth Dore, Sheila Carapico, Leela Kasturi, and Jane
Parpart. Part III focuses on industrialization, state policies, and
women workers, with contributions by Ruth Pearson, Helen Safa, Rita
Gallin, Valentine Moghadam, Guy Standing, and Tuovi Allen. The book
ends with an appendix of statistical tables providing descriptive
data on women in the countries under consideration and others.
The contributors are well-known academics and researchers who
utilize the methods of economics, sociology, history, and feminist
analysis in their case studies of economic development and women's
positions."
Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for
trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a
global context. Looking at labor policies and interviews with
people in unions and nongovernmental organizations, the essays
diagnose the problems faced by women workers across the world and
assess the progress that unions in various countries have made in
responding to those problems. Some concerns addressed include the
masculine culture of many unions and the challenges of female
leadership within them, laissez-faire governance, and the limited
success of organizations working on these issues globally. Making
Globalization Work for Women brings together in a synthetic and
fruitful conversation the work and ideas of feminists, unions,
NGOs, and other human rights workers.
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