Modernization, the State, and the Family in Middle East Women’s Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-87
Author(s):  
Mervat F. Hatem
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
The Family

Question: How Have Middle East Scholars Contributed to the Broader Field of Gender and Women's Studies?

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Monograph Series

In August 2001, a conference on the state of Middle East women's studies took place at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy. Apart from the gorgeous surroundings, the conference was memorable for the breadth and scope of the high-quality papers presented by scholars teaching in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Many participants were active in the Association for Middle East Women's Studies. Some went on to establish the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Hawwa, and Brill's women and Islam monograph series. Most of us also publish in disciplinary journals and present papers at a variety of conferences.

scholarly journals Continuing Education For Arab Women

1970 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Julinda Abu Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Women’S Studies

The issue of Continuing Education for Arab Women was the theme of a workshop sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World and the Middle East Church Council and was held last May in an old monastery in Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

scholarly journals All in the Family

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-126
Author(s):  
Allen McDuffee
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
State University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Georgia State University ◽  
The Status

Despite the instability usually attributed to the Middle East, today one finds anunusual level of stability in eight of its monarchies. When mosl countries of theworld are converting to some form of "democracy," what has led this type ofstate system to such stability? In his book, All in the Family, Michael Herb,Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, providesthe most thought-provoking work on Middle Eastern monarchies since rentierstate theory became fashionable. Herb determines that "there are two distinctforms of monarchism in the Middle East. One is resilient and the other is not''(p. 235). His basic thesis is that the key to the survival, persistence, andresilience of monarchies in the Middle East is the willingness and ability of theruling families to saturate the most important positions in the state apparatus.He terms this "dynastic monarchism"-the idea that "the ruling family formsitself into a ruling institution, monopolizing the key offices of the state" (p.235). In the unsuccessful type of monarchy, the king "maneuvers among variousforces-the army, the parliament, and the parties-and when he loses balancethe monarchy falls" (p. 235). Case studies are used to illustrate bothmonarchical models: dynastic (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United ArabEmirates, Bahrain, and Oman) and nondynastic (Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Iran.Morocco, Jordan, and Afghanistan - usually excluded from studies on theMiddle East). This book relies on comparative analysis and is based not onlyon archival research, but also on interviews and secondary sources.In the second and third chapters, "The Emergence of Dynastic Monarchy andthe Causes of Its Persistence" and "Arabian Society and the Emergence of thePetro-State," respectively, the reader gets a sense of the rise of the petro-stateand how it enabled dynastic monarchies to emerge. He asserts that theyemerged because the ruler's relatives "had powerful bargaining resourceswhich they could use to help rulers stay in power, to aid aspiring rulers inachieving power, or to attack and depose sitting rulers" (p. 22). Tims, the emergenceof the petro-state added another dimension in intrafamily negotiations.Dynasties consolidate power by limiting the status of any individual or clique.Coalitions are built by the rulers through distribution of government positionsto relatives as a means of assuring their cooperation. Dynasties are strengthenedby forming consensus on the issue of succession rather than depending onprimogeniture. As a result, a ruler is held accountable to his family who ...

scholarly journals Recent Publications/Announcement/Films

1970 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies

Announcement: Call for Nominations/Applications - Editor-in-Chief Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies

scholarly journals Dr. Fadia Kiwan: How to Enter the Cabinet

1970 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Women’S Studies

In her lecture at the Conference on Women and the Environment organized by the Insitute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (see page 12), Dr. Fadia Kiwan discussed major political concepts concerning women She noted that women in Lebanon did attain parliamentary posts, but are not members of the cabinet, pointing out that Lebanon is the only country in the Middle East where women have never participated in cabinet.

The state of women's studies in the Sudan

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (27-28) ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
El‐ Wathig Kamier ◽  
Zeinab El‐Bakri ◽  
Idris Salim ◽  
Samiya El‐Ngar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Studies

The Institutionalization of Middle East Women’s Studies in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Margot Badran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Distinct Field

The wave of the study of women which led directly into the formation of the new discipline called women’s studies started in the 1960s in the Middle East and the United States concurrently. A generation earlier, foreshadowing the creation of the new field, Zahiyya Dughan, a Lebanese delegate to the Arab Women’s Conference in Cairo in 1944, called upon Arab universities to accord the intellectual and literary heritage of Arab women a place in the curriculum by creating chairs for the study of women’s writings. By now, at the end of the 1980s, women’s studies as a distinct field has found legitimacy in the academy. In the United States there are women’s studies programs in all major colleges and universities—more than sixty graduate programs offer M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s—and fifty major research centers, most of which are attached to universities. The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and the Middle East Studies Association equally claim some three thousand members. However, the study of women remains marginal within Middle East studies, while women’s studies still remain largely centered on the West.

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