The Arab Bed Spring? Sexual rights in troubled times across the Middle East and North Africa

Abstract In recent decades, attitudes in many parts of the Arab region have hardened towards non-conforming sexualities and gender roles, a shift fuelled in part by a rise in Islamic conservatism and exploited by authoritarian regimes. While political cultures have proved slow to change in the wake...

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Published in:Reproductive health matters 2015-11, Vol.23 (46), p.38-44
Main Author: El Feki, Shereen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
Africa, Northern
Arabs
COMMENTARY
Domestic violence
Global Health
Human Rights
Humans
Internal Medicine
Islam
LGBT
Marriage
Men
Middle East
Middle East and North Africa
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Politics
Reproductive health
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Sexual Behavior - ethnology
Sexual rights
Sexual violence
Sexuality
Social Change
Social media
Violence against women
Women
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Summary:Abstract In recent decades, attitudes in many parts of the Arab region have hardened towards non-conforming sexualities and gender roles, a shift fuelled in part by a rise in Islamic conservatism and exploited by authoritarian regimes. While political cultures have proved slow to change in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’, a growing freedom of expression, and increasing activity by civil society, is opening space for discreet challenges to sexual taboos in a number of countries, part of wider debates over human rights and personal liberties in the emerging political and social order.
ISSN:0968-8080
1460-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.rhm.2015.11.010