HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Women's Rights in the Arab World

Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives. This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab state functions according to a certain logic and patterns which have direct consequences on its gender policies, in both the public and private spheres. Using the features of the Arab Authoritarian state as a basis for a theoretical framework of analysis, the author draws on detailed fieldwork and first-hand interviews to study women s rights in three countries - Yemen, Syria, and Kuwait. She argues that the puzzle may be resolved once we focus on the features of the Arab state, and its stage of development. Offering a new approach to the study of gender and politics in Arab states, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of gender studies, international politics and Middle East studies."

Class structure and social change in the Arab world / Samih K. Farsoun -- Change in Saudi Arabia : a view from "Paris of Nejd" / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole -- State, legitimacy and democratization in the Maghreb / Abdelbaki Hermassi -- From demographic explosion to social rupture / Philippe Fargues -- State, women and civil society : an evaluation of Egypt's population policy / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Fertility and social change in Oman : women's perspectives / Christine Eickelman -- Women's autonomy and the limits of population policy in Egypt / Barbara Ibrahim, Laila Nawar, and Cynthia B. Lloyd -- Manshiet Nasser : a Cairo neighborhood / Belgin Tekçe, Linda Oldham, and Frederic C. Shorter -- Childhood and childcare in squatter areas of Amman, Jordan / Seteny Shami and Lucine Taminian -- Haddou : a Moroccan migrant worker / David McMurray -- Changing gender relations in a Moroccan town / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Brother-sister relationships : connectivity, love, and power in the reproduction of patriarchy in Lebanon / Suad Joseph -- We'll talk later / Rhoda Kanaaneh -- Economic aspects of the qat industry in north-west Yemen / Shelagh Weir -- Small farmer households and agricultural sustainability in Egypt / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- Shayks, peasants, and party comrades : political changes in northern Syria / Sulayman N. Khalf -- The 'Bread Revolt' in rural Tunisia : notables, workers, peasants / Mouldi Lahmar -- Pluralism in the Arab World / Iliya Harik -- Economic liberalization and the lineages of the rentier state : Iraq and Saudi Arabia compared / Kiren Aziz Chaudhry -- The peace process, national reconstruction, and the transition to democracy in Palestine / Khalil Shikaki -- Kuwaiti women at a crossroads : privileged development and the constraints of ethnic stratification / Anh Nga Longva -- A tale of two factories / Khaled Kamel -- Environmental threats in Jordan and Syria / Marc Lavegne -- The human and ecological impact of the civil war in the Sudan / Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed -- Human rights and cultural specificity : some reflections / Rashad Antonius -- Organizing for the rights of women : Tunisian voices / Kevin Dwyer -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Islam and the gendered discourses of death / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Authority and the mosque in upper Egypt : the Islamic preacher as image and actor / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Economic change, social structure and religious fanaticism / Galal Amin.