Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East

by Valentine M. Moghadam

Overview

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, democratization, and meaningful citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781588269331
Publisher:	Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/24/2013
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Valentine M. Moghadam is professor of sociology and director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Her numerous publications includeGlobalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement and Globalizing Women: Gender, Globalization, and Transnational Feminist Movements (winner of the APSA Victoria Schuck Award).

Editorial Reviews

One of the best studies of women and social change in the Middle East ever to be published.... Superb.

Choice

A tour de force.... a cogent and lively book that thoughtfully considers the political and economic issues emanating from gender constructs in state-building and economic development.

Ian Campbell

Moghadam addresses a bewildering array of puzzling anomalies and, slicing skillfully through them, exposes their bare bones and substructure.

Middle East Journal

A tour de force.... a cogent and lively book that thoughtfully considers the political and economic issues emanating from gender constructs in state-building and economic development.

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