Women in the Middle East, Past and Present

[...] Keddie does situate Muslim women's lives in their broader socioeconomic contexts and demonstrates that many additional factors, all linked to Western influence colonialism, underdevelopment, support of autocratic modernizers and oil politics, to name a few-have also been at work in prolon...

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Published in:Middle East Policy 2007, Vol.14 (4), p.189-191
Main Author: McAleese, Mary K. Meyer
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Autocracy
Centuries
Colonialism
Cultural identity
Essays
Influence
Islam
Living conditions
Middle Eastern history
Muslims
Nonfiction
Politics
Religion
Socioeconomic factors
Urban areas
Women
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Summary:[...] Keddie does situate Muslim women's lives in their broader socioeconomic contexts and demonstrates that many additional factors, all linked to Western influence colonialism, underdevelopment, support of autocratic modernizers and oil politics, to name a few-have also been at work in prolonging and exacerbating women's economic, social and political inequality in the region. In more recent decades, the uneven effects of modernization, Western political influence in oppressive autocratic regimes, and the widening gap between elites and masses have given rise to new oppositional Islamist movements in which Islamist women embrace veiling and the hijab not as a step backwards into "tradition" but rather to signal a reinvented and innovative symbol of cultural identity, national pride and religious piety.
ISSN:1061-1924
1475-4967