A Woman's Place: Democratization in the Middle East

2004 ◽  
Vol 103 (669) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Nikki R. Keddie
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women’S Roles

Women's struggles, along with the forces of modernization, have increased the public roles open to women in the Muslim world despite the growing power of Islamism, and this expansion of women's roles constitutes in itself a force for democratization.

A Brief Commentary and Report on the Roundtable and Panels on Women’s Roles Held at the 1975 MESA Meeting

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fernea ◽  
Suad Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Single Element ◽  
General Behavior ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
Minor Factor ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
A Minor

Women are a single element in any society under discussion. The recent focus on Middle Eastern women as women, their roles, positions and general behavior, has been an attempt, we believe, to point out that previous western studies of the Middle East have neglected this important element. Indeed, many of the scholarly books and monographs to appear in recent years seem to have been conceived and written as though the female half of the Middle Eastern world did not exist, or if it did, was simply a minor factor with little or no bearing on the processes of the society, and thus not worthy of more than passing consideration. The reasons for this neglect have been discussed before and by now should be obvious. They need not be repeated here.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: “PEREMPUAN ULAMA DI ATAS PANGGUNG SEJARAH” (WOMEN ULAMA ON THE HISTORICAL STAGE)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhea Amaliyah Zamzami ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
The World

The book "Perempuan Ulama Di Atas Panggung Sejarah" by K.H. Husein Muhammad aims to introduce the women's roles to the public in general, and spesifically to the women community. There are thirty biographies of great women in the world who have intellectual capacities like men; some are even greater. However, women are always considered as objects, weak, and inferior to men because of the patriarchal culture. Therefore, the book was written to fight for gender equality and justice for women worldwide, including Indonesia.

Rewriting History: Marie Dronsart's Grandes voyageuses and Portraits d'outre-Manche

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Barbara Pauk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Public ◽  
French Woman ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Rewriting History

During the nineteenth century, historical writing generally reflected the idea that women played only minor roles in the public realm and in history. In the 1880s and 1890s, when feminism emerged more forcefully, the French woman Marie Dronsart endeavoured to rewrite history in her works Portraits d'outre-Manche and Les grandes voyageuses, as well as through her translation of Queen Victoria's memoirs. Dronsart, in spite of her numerous works and translations, has scarcely received any critical attention so far. Addressing this gap in scholarship, this paper will argue that Dronsart tries to assert the importance of women's roles in history without offending conservative sensibilities. I will investigate how Dronsart negotiates the various discourses on feminism and femininity through different strategies, most importantly by enmeshing discourses on women with discourses on the English nation, and by drawing on stereotypes and specific English sources.

Women’s Roles in Technical Innovation

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Ilkkaracan ◽  
Helen Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles

scholarly journals Neo-Ibuism in Indonesian Politics: Election Campaigns of Wives of Regional Heads in West Sumatra in 2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 186810342198906
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ichsan Kabullah ◽  
M. Nurul Fajri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article focuses on electoral victories by wives of regional heads in West Sumatra province during Indonesia’s 2019 elections. We argue that these victories can be explained by the emergence of a phenomenon we label “neo-ibuism.” We draw on the concept of “state ibuism,” previously used to describe the gender ideology of the authoritarian Soeharto regime, which emphasised women’s roles as mothers ( ibu) and aimed to domesticate them politically. Neo-ibuism, by contrast, allows women to play an active role in the public sphere, including in elections, but in ways that still emphasise women’s roles within the family. The wives of regional government heads who won legislative victories in West Sumatra not only relied on their husbands’ political resources to achieve victories, but they also used a range of political networks to reach out to voters, in ways that stressed both traditional gender roles and their own political agency.

Confluences in Social Change: Cuban Women and Health Care

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Care Problems

A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and health care in contemporary Cuba have dramatically altered over the past decade, thus yielding doubly rich insights, which reciprocally illuminate both issues.

Nazi Germany and the Karaites in 1938–1944: between racial theory andRealpolitik

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiril Feferman
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Racial Origin ◽  
Jewish Ancestry ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

This article explores the policies of Nazi Germany towards the Karaites, a group of Jewish ancestry which emerged during the seventh to the ninth centuries CE, when its followers rejected the mainstream Jewish interpretation of Tanakh. Karaite communities flourished in Persia, Turkey, Egypt, Crimea, and Lithuania. From 1938 to 1944, the Nazi bureaucracy and scholarship examined the question of whether the Karaites were of Jewish origin, practiced Judaism and had to be treated as Jews. Because of its proximity to Judenpolitik and later to the Muslim factor, the subject got drawn into the world of Nazi grand policy and became the instrument of internecine power struggles between various agencies in Berlin. The Muslim factor in this context is construed as German cultivation of a special relationship with the Muslim world with an eye to political dividends in the Middle East and elsewhere. Nazi views of the Karaites’ racial origin and religion played a major role in their policy towards the group. However, as the tides of the war turned against the Germans, various Nazi agencies demonstrated growing flexibility either to re-tailor the Karaites’ racial credentials or to entirely gloss over them in the name of “national interests,” i.e. a euphemism used to disguise Nazi Germany's overtures to the Muslim world.

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