Womanpower : the Arab debate on women at work /
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| Author / Creator: | Hijab, Nadia |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
| Description: | xiv, 176 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge Middle East library |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/895500 |
Table of Contents:
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The UN Decade for Women
- The Arab world and the UN Decade
- The Convention's rocky road
- Change at the grassroots level
- Tough times ahead
- 1. The great family law debate
- A slow pace of change
- The Arab family: the key to society
- Women: the key to the family
- 'Equivalent' under the law
- The early days of Islam
- Restrictive interpretations
- The secular approach: Turkey
- Nationalism vs reform: Tunisia's 'Islamic secularism'
- An 'Islamic Marxist' approach: Democratic Yemen
- Leaving the law to the courts: Bahrain and Kuwait
- The debate on identity, religion and rights: Algeria
- The Egyptian family law saga
- Egyptian women argue their case
- A small step for womankind...
- Appendix
- 2. Cross-currents conservative and liberal
- 'Cultural loyalty' and the limits of debate
- Cultural colonialism
- Cultural loyalty and the status of women
- Feminism vs nationalism
- The establishment outlook
- Defining the role of religion in society
- Organisational strength
- Reaching out to women
- The uses of veiling
- Islamic liberation
- How to define the role of women
- The liberal nationalists
- Questioning the framework
- The debate goes on
- 3. Arab women in the workforce
- Redefining development
- Some positive indicators
- And some negative indicators
- Working women: unreliable statistics
- Three conditions: need, opportunity, ability
- The cultural thesis: an example from Lebanon
- Need at the state level--and the phenomenon of labour migration
- Labour migration and the role of women
- Opportunity at the state level: planning for women
- Arab labour legislation on women
- The gap between theory and practice
- Need and opportunity at the popular level
- Work and public activity: two sets of attitudes
- The third condition: ability
- Need, opportunity, ability
- 4. Jordanian women's liberating forces: inflation and labour migration
- Need at the state level: from unemployment to labour shortage
- Ability: the female labour pool
- Creating opportunity: planning for women
- Self-reliance vs self-help
- Legislation and 'consciousness-raising'
- Attitudes of Jordanian employers
- Need at the popular level
- Change in the village, too
- New avenues open up
- The pendulum swings
- 5. The Arab Gulf states: demand but no supply
- A flood of foreign manpower
- Opportunity knocks, not too loudly
- Social attitudes and opportunity at the popular level
- Colonisation in reverse, and the question of identity
- Social alarm bells and foreign nursemaids
- Changing attitudes to marriage
- The young professionals
- The women professionals
- Tug of war on women's work
- Ability: the need for skills
- Work for work's sake
- 6. Power past and future
- Defining power
- Negotiating power
- Early women reformers and nationalism
- Women's groups, official and unofficial
- The right to vote (when parliament exists)
- Seeking other avenues for change
- Networking, and cultural maturity
- Social, economic and national liberation
- Information as a source of power
- Empowering people
- Bibliography
- Index