Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East : Islamic and Secular Organizations in Egypt.

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Author / Creator:	Krause, Wanda.
Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (348 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Women political activists -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century. Civil society -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century. Social action -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century. Civil society. Social action. Women political activists. Women -- Social conditions. Egypt. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954839

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ISBN:	9780857732149 0857732145 9780857722508 0857722506
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	In the Middle East, and in Egypt in particular, there has always been a tendency to accord complete supremacy to the authority and might of the state, and to see 'society' as a separate, powerless entity. However, after the uprising of 2011, this assumption was turned on its head. And it is the wide range of political activity beyond the remit of the official state where Wanda Krause locates a dynamic potential for political change from the bottom up. She looks in particular at the influential role of women's private voluntary organisations in Egypt in shaping concepts of civil society and dem.
Other form:	Print version: Krause, Wanda. Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East : Islamic and Secular Organizations in Egypt. London : I.B. Tauris, ©2012 9781848858855

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