Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East
Moghadam's influential study of gender dynamics and social processes in the Middle East has been fully updated to reflect a decade of major changes - including shifts in development strategy and population policy, the rise of a reform movement in Iran incorporating both Islamic and secular feminists, the fundamentalist war on feminists in Algeria, and the rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. New data and analysis of emerging trends make this second edition a welcome successor.
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Including North Africa in her study, Moghadan (women's studies and sociology, Illinois State U.) looks at the impact of social change on women's legal status, their social positions, and constructions of gender from a sociological perspective. She insists that, contrary to many superficial accounts, women's lives are not solely determined by religion, but are also heavily impacted by economic development, the state, class location, patriarchy, and the world system. The bulk of the work looks at the Middle East and North Africa, but a couple of individual chapters are devoted to Afghanistan and Iran. This new edition has been updated to take into account events of the past 10 years. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Booknews Writing from a Marxist-feminist perspective, Moghadam (economics, United Nations U., Helsinki) argues that middle-class women are at the center of change in the Middle East. She examines economic development, women's employment, the family, Islamic movements, and other social processes in a number of countries, and provides detailed case studies of Afghanistan and Iran. Paper edition (354-5), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of IllustrationsPrefaceNote on Transliteration and the Iranian Calendar1Recasting the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan12Economic Development, State Policy, and Women's Employment333Reforms, Revolutions, and "the Woman Question"794Patriarchy and the Changing Family1135Islamist Movements and Women's Responses1516Iran: From Islamization to Islamic Feminism - and Beyond?1937Afghanistan: Revolution, Reaction, and Attempted Reconstruction2278All That Is Solid Melts into Air ...227List of Acronyms299Selected Bibliography301Index307About the Book325
\ BooknewsWriting from a Marxist-feminist perspective, Moghadam (economics, United Nations U., Helsinki) argues that middle-class women are at the center of change in the Middle East. She examines economic development, women's employment, the family, Islamic movements, and other social processes in a number of countries, and provides detailed case studies of Afghanistan and Iran. Paper edition (354-5), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
