Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Fara™was appointed minister of state for human rights in 2001, and in Qatar Shaykha bt. A™mad al- Ma™mùd became minister of educ ...

In most states of the peninsula women’s formal and informal political participation has increased over the 1990s. Universal suff ...

of national resistance under war conditions, was to continue to enjoy the massive support of the Bosnian Muslim men and women un ...

discrimination, or internal barriers, such as pres- sures not to be involved in politics? Are there Muslim women who run for off ...

which most women activists operate (Abu-Laban 2002, 277). In Canada Muslim women have focused most of their political energies i ...

their opposition activities from abroad, elected a woman as the head of their organization. Since the Islamic Revolution, women ...

quote Zakya Daoud. In Morocco, the rapid degra- dation of the relationship between the monarchy and the political parties born o ...

Bibliography L. Brand, Women, the state and the political liberalism. Middle Eastern and North Africa experiences, New York 1998 ...

forces (Hindu and Muslim). In the 1980s the Shah Bano case led the Congress government to pass the Muslim Women (Protection of R ...

Women’s activism and politicized religion in South Asia, New York 1998. S. Lateef, Muslim women in India. Political and private ...

Muslim women have been actively pursuing strategies to attain political representation in legis- latures throughout Africa. Of t ...

Finally, there are those women’s movements that work within the Islamic establishment and are sup- portive of it, although often ...

community structures, and conventional role models (Z. Arat 1998). The state was deeply criticized for being gender blind (Kadıo ...

A. Güneç-Ayata and C. Aslan-Akman, Overcoming gen- der inequalities in political recruitment. Another chal- lenge for democratiz ...

Iran and Afghanistan iran There were female political prisoners in Iran long before women’s prisons were established and prior t ...

tion were hanged as “armed enemies of God,” left- ist women were whipped at the five times of prayer for weeks. One woman died a ...

Afghanistan Gender and women’s issues have featured promi- nently in the political evolution of modern Afghan- istan; however, t ...

when a stable government and rule of law are re- established throughout the land. Bibliography L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton ...

“New Woman” to the creation and reproduction of a uniform citizenry (Kandiyoti 1991). In 1935 the Turkish Women’s Association, o ...

Iran and Afghanistan In Afghanistan and Iran markers of group dis- tinction – nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, and ra ...