Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

J. Cole, Modernity and the millennium, New York 1998. L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J. 1980. N. H. Dupree, Revolutionary ...

they were particularly active in the Peace Partisans, the Federation of Democratic Youth, the Iraqi Teachers’ Union, and, above ...

Women such as Malika El-Fassi (Morocco), Dja- mila Debeche (Algeria), and Bchira M’rad (Tunisia) are examples. The first women’s ...

neer creation of university graduate units such as one for women’s studies in Rabat and another for gender studies in Fes. These ...

in future phases of the struggle for national libera- tion: politicization of women’s domestic roles; the influence of kin relat ...

on women. The headscarf was re-encoded as a sign of women’s political commitment, and women who did not wear it were defined as ...

women carried food and messages to fighters. In Aden, women’s role was merely political. They led demonstrations, initiated stri ...

Democratic Republic of Yemen, in Feminist Review 1 (1979), 4–19. ——, Women’s rights and and political contingency. The case of Y ...

rates, there were sharp rises in child marriage and other formerly banned practices, such as humiliat- ing “virginity testing” f ...

A number of prominent women influence public policy. In 2004, three women, two of whom are Muslims, held ministerial portfolios: ...

However, foremost among the organizing achieve- ments of the SCP was its foundation of an affiliated Sudanese Women’s Union (SWU ...

other dictator, Adìb al-Shìshaklì, awarded women full suffrage in 1953. After independence, women turned to leftist movements to ...

Bibliography U. F. Abd-Allah, The Islamic struggle in Syria, Berkeley 1983. K. S. Abu Jaber, The Arab Ba≠th Socialist Party. His ...

ened. A socialist party, Türkiye ÷ççi Partisi (Labor Party of Turkey, LPT) was represented in the par- liament for the first tim ...

Arab States (excepting North Africa and the Gulf) National constitutions in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine i ...

the civil service and equal pay; the 1971 maternal law provided for six months’ paid maternity leave, with the right to an addit ...

both high unemployment and severe restrictions on movement. Palestine’s women’s labor force partici- pation was 11.3 percent, wi ...

N. Nauphal, Post war Lebanon. Women and other war affected groups, ILO action programme on skills and entrepreneurship training ...

trade associations: for example, there are trade associations for women publishers, teachers, nurses, and lawyers (Rostami Povey ...

unionism, the low union membership rate among women workers, as well as their restricted repre- sentation among the administrati ...