ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINI, Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999). Pp. 329.

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
Nayereh Tohidi
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Female Scholar

This book is unique in several ways. It is the product of unprecedented research collaboration between a Muslim feminist female anthropologist (Ziba Mir-Hosseini), based and educated in the West, and a Muslim feminist male cleric (Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Muhsin Sa[ayin]id Zadih), based and educated in Islamic seminaries in Iran. For the first time, the Qom seminary (Hawzih)—the center of religious and political power of Shi[ayin]i clerics—opened its doors to a feminist female scholar, letting her engage in a face-to-face encounter on gender issues with several prominent Islamic ulema (clerical scholars). Much of the book is a transcription of dialogues between Mir-Hosseini and eminent clerics in the Iranian religious seminaries in the city of Qom. The central concern of these dialogues is the way religious knowledge is produced in Shi[ayin]i Islam and the complex relationship among the believer, religious authority, and political action.

scholarly journals The Dutch inside the ‘Moslima’ and the ‘Moslima’ inside the Dutch: Processing the Religious Experience of Muslim Women in The Netherlands

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bat Hass ◽  
Hayden Lutek
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Dutch Identity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research focuses on Dutch Muslim women who chose to practice Islam, whether they were born Muslim (‘Newly Practicing Muslims’) or they chose to convert (‘New Muslims’). This study takes place in a context, the Netherlands, where Islam is popularly considered by the native Dutch population, as a religion oppressive to women. How do these Dutch Muslim women build their identity in a way that it is both Dutch and Muslim? Do they mix Dutch parameters in their Muslim identity, while at the same time, inter-splicing Islamic principles in their Dutch sense of self? This study is based on an ethnography conducted in the city of Amsterdam from September to October 2009, which combines insights taken from in-depth interviews with Dutch Muslim women, observations from Quranic and Religious classes, observations in a mosque, and one-time events occurring during the month of Ramadan. This paper argues that, in the context of being Dutch and Muslim, women express their agency, which is their ability to choose and act in social action: they push the limits of archetypal Dutch identity while simultaneously stretching the meaning of Islam to craft their own identity, one that is influenced by themes of immigration, belongingness, religious knowledge, higher education and gender.

scholarly journals Succession in family farming: gender and future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e40810313594
Author(s):  
Juçara Elza Hennerich ◽  
Clério Plein ◽  
Luciana Oliveira de Fariña ◽  
Márcia Hanzen ◽  
Flávia Piccinin Paz Gubert
Keyword(s):  
Female Gender ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Succession Processes ◽  
The City

The succession processes in rural properties, in particular, in family farming, has taken priority status among the themes that involve the rural environment. The present study was carried out in the extreme west of the state of Santa Catarina, between the years 2016 and 2017, when 268 farmers were interviewed. In addition to the objective of recording and discussing data related to succession, gender and generational processes, the research was also carried out as a didactic tool for agricultural sciences courses in the region. The study recorded the desire, regardless of gender, of 5.5% of young people to break connection with agriculture in their future and not participate in the succession processes. Result that opposes the point of view of the parents, who express a gender distinction in the succession role, where 72.4% relates the male gender to such, while for the female gender the desire of 94% of fathers and mothers is that the daughters, respectively, get married and / or live in the city. The study points out the importance of actions involving the parents of rural youth in succession and gender issues that are increasingly urgent in the possible future of family farming.

Celebrating Women’s Day in Baghdad, the City of Men

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 283-289
Author(s):  
Zahra Ali
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Scene

Women’s rights have been central to the post-invasion Iraqi political scene, which is dominated by conservative and sectarian Islamist parties who advance their own gender rhetoric of women as bearers of the “New Iraq.” This chapter presents a short ethnographic account of the 2012 Women’s Day celebration in Baghdad, held by a longstanding leftist women’s rights organization, the Iraqi Women’s League, which re-formed in 2003 after being banned by the Ba‘th regime for two decades. By providing this brief account, Zahra Ali seeks to highlight the context and political significance of the mobilizations around women and gender issues in post-invasion Iraq.

scholarly journals IS OUR CHILD TOO YOUNG TO LEARN ABOUT GENDER EQUALITY? AN INTERPRETATION OF GENDER EDUCATION IN ACEH FAMILIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zawil Kiram
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Time

This study aims to reveal gender-based discrimination, forms of gender education, and the importance of gender education in Acehnese families. This study was conducted by using the method of descriptive qualitative with data collection techniques through observation and interview. The result showed that in Acehnese families, the forms of gender-based discrimination that often faced by women are inequality in housework distribution and childcare. In Aceh, most men still play fewer roles in taking care of children because domestic jobs are seen to be women’s’ responsibilities. Another form of gender-based discrimination in Aceh is domestic violence against women. The result also demonstrated that in Acehnese families there is no gender education because many people do not understand the term of gender equality and gender issues are considered as western culture and still taboo to discuss. Gender education in the family is important because children acquire gender stereotypes at an early age, and they learn about gender equality from their family for the first time. Teaching gender equality to children is never too early, and they never too young to learn about it, they would come out and bring the gender equality in the family and society in general as they will be the pioneer or gender equality when they reach adulthood.

scholarly journals Preschool Teachers' Opinions Towards to Multicultural Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayten Ates ◽  
◽  
Seda Şahin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
City Center ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

It is almost impossible to talk about a monocultural society in the world that exist diversity and differences. Cultural diversity also makes its presence felt in schools, as in every atmosphere. Pre-school institutions, where children leave their home environment and are involved in the educational environment for the first time, are the places in which each child brings the cultural diversity of himself and his family, and in which peer interaction first occurs and develops. For these reasons, it is important to determine the views and practices of pre-school teachers about multiculturalism and its applications. In this study, a phenomenological research model, one of the qualitative research methods, was used by interviewing 23 preschool teachers working in official independent kindergartens in the city center of Diyarbakır. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, and content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. So far as the results of the research; it has been determined that the number of teachers who make arrangements in terms of multiculturalism in their classrooms is quite low, and the teachers who do not make arrangements for this, justify that the children in their classes are from Diyarbakır province or its surroundings, and ignore the cultural diversity of the province they work in. It was designated that all of the participants included the issues of respect for differences in their plans, and due to the pandemic, the diversity of teachers' activities for multiculturalism and respect for differences decreased. It has been determined that teachers focus on different themes and subjects due to the limited education period during the pandemic process. All the teachers participating in the study emphasized that it is more effective to address cultural issues in face-to-face education, however it was determined that they could not associate some of their practices with multiculturalism and respect for differences.

scholarly journals HOW RESPONSIBLE ARE TURKISH SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR DISTANCE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Yakar
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Study Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
School Year ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the distance learning responsibility levels of secondary school students attending schools in the Aegean Region of Turkey by developing a scale of responsibility for distance learning. The study is a descriptive study employing the survey model. Two different study groups were used in the current study. In the first stage, a total of 477 secondary school students attending schools in the cities of İzmir, Denizli and Muğla in Turkey in the 2020-2021 school year were included in the study group to develop the Scale of Responsibility for Distance Learning. In the second stage of the study, the study group is comprised of 2043 secondary school students selected from among the secondary school students attending schools located in the cities of İzmir, Manisa, Aydın, Denizli, Muğla, Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya and Uşak in the Agean Region of Turkey in the 2020-2021 school year. The data were collected face-to-face and online via Google Forms during COVID-19 pandemic by using the Scale of Responsibility for Distance Learning. According to the findings of the study, the scale is a valid and reliable scale with adequately satisfied psychometric features. Another finding of the current study is that the participating secondary school students’ responsibility scores vary significantly depending on the city where they attend the school, grade level and gender.

scholarly journals Preschool Teachers' Opinions Towards to Multicultural Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayten Ateş ◽  
Seda Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
City Center ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

It is almost impossible to talk about a monocultural society in the world that exist diversity and differences. Cultural diversity also makes its presence felt in schools, as in every atmosphere. Pre-school institutions, where children leave their home environment and are involved in the educational environment for the first time, are the places in which each child brings the cultural diversity of himself and his family, and in which peer interaction first occurs and develops. For these reasons, it is important to determine the views and practices of pre-school teachers about multiculturalism and its applications. In this study, a phenomenological research model, one of the qualitative research methods, was used by interviewing 23 preschool teachers working in official independent kindergartens in the city center of Diyarbakır. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, and content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. So far as the results of the research; it has been determined that the number of teachers who make arrangements in terms of multiculturalism in their classrooms is quite low, and the teachers who do not make arrangements for this, justify that the children in their classes are from Diyarbakır province or its surroundings, and ignore the cultural diversity of the province they work in. It was designated that all of the participants included the issues of respect for differences in their plans, and due to the pandemic, the diversity of teachers' activities for multiculturalism and respect for differences decreased. It has been determined that teachers focus on different themes and subjects due to the limited education period during the pandemic process. All the teachers participating in the study emphasized that it is more effective to address cultural issues in face-to-face education, however it was determined that they could not associate some of their practices with multiculturalism and respect for differences.

Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries Edited by Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 348p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-247
Author(s):  
Markus M. L. Crepaz
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
First Time

A specter is haunting the Trilateral Democracies—this specter is called civic malaise. It has visited these countries before; rearing its head for the first time a quarter-century ago, proclaiming the demise of democracy due to the inability of governments to respond to the onslaught of waves of new forms of participatory democracy and political action. (Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission, 1975). Too much democracy, as it were, may be too much of a good thing. Fortunately many of these dire predictions have not materialized, perhaps partly because they were highlighted a quarter-century ago. The sequel, Disaffected Democracies, celebrates the silver anniversary of the original Crisis of Democracy. This successor volume is similarly concerned with the fate of democracy in rich countries. These democracies are “troubled” (p. 7), so the argument goes, because their public institutions are undermined by declining confidence in government and sagging interpersonal social trust. The authors of this edited volume situate the sources of these “disturbing” (p.13) developments squarely in the political sphere. In other words, the origins of the decline in confidence in political institutions is not explained by a frail social fabric but, rather, by failures of government and politics themselves. Despite a tight focus on the temporal (the last 25 years) and spatial (the Trilateral countries) parameters of this edited volume, it is refreshing to see so many diverse and innovative diagnoses as to what is ailing the rich democracies.

Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arna Bontemps
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Second Best ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

This chapter discusses the participation of Illinois Negroes in politics, including elections. Having been given the right to vote by federal and state constitutions, Illinois Negroes began to organize for political action about five years after the close of the Civil War. Although George White had been appointed town crier of Chicago in 1837 and John Jones had been elected as a Cook County Commissioner in 1871, Cairo's Negro voters in 1873 demonstrated for the first time the effect of organization on a racial basis across the state. They rallied around and elected him as police magistrate, the second best office in the city. This chapter looks at the success of a number of Negroes in Illinois electoral politics as well as those who had been appointed to various political posts and others who wielded considerable political power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from I. I. Bird and William Hale Thompson to Adelbert H. Roberts, Earl B. Dickerson, John “Mushmouth” Johnson, Daniel M. Jackson, and Marcus Garvey.

scholarly journals Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: Before, During and After the Mega-Event

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Moraes Zouain ◽  
Paola Bastos Lohmann ◽  
Gabriela De Laurentis Cardoso ◽  
Kaarina Barbosa Virkki ◽  
Marcela Cohen Martelotte
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

This study investigates the residents’ perceptions of Rio de Janeiro regarding the impacts of Rio 2016 Olympic Games. For the first time, a country in South America was chosen to host this megaevent, being a great opportunity to track residents’ perception and cover a gap in longitudinal studies involving residents in developing countries and its impacts on the host city. A face-to-face quantitative survey was conducted over three years, with a total of 1,211 interviewees in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The population perceived positively mainly an improvement in urban mobility and an increase in tourism; but, negatively, the misuse of public resources, increase in prices, and non-lasting legacies that critically affected the image of the destination post-Olympics.

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