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From patriarchy to empowerment : women's participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
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From patriarchy to empowerment : women's participation, movements, and rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia

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Women's empowerment : an introduction and overview / Valentine M. Moghadam
Mobilizing women for nationalist agendas : Palestinian women, civil society, and the state-building process / Deborah J. Gerner
Against all odds : women candidates in Jordan's 1997 elections / Abla Amawi
Afghan women under marxism / Senzil Nawid
Women in political parties in Turkey : emerging spaces for Islamic women / Nilufer Narli
Feminist organizing in Tunisia : negotiating transnational linkages and the state / Sarah E. Gilman
Women, communications, and democratization in Morocco / Loubna H. Skalli
Women's empowerment in India : rhetoric and reality / Ahmad Shamshad
Girl but not woman : garment factory workers in Fez, Morocco / M. Laetitia Cairoli
The status of rural women in Turkey : what is the role of regional differences? / Ayşe Gündüz-Hoşgör and Jeroen Smits
Education, tradition, and modernization : Bedouin girls in Israel / Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder
Museum feminization? Women and museum employment in Jordan / Carol Malt
Feminism and censorship in an Islamic republic : women filmmakers in Iran / Ibrahim al-Marashi
Depression in Nepalese women : tradition, changing roles, and public health policy / Dana Crowley Jack and Mark van Ommeren
The menace of dowry : laws, interpretation, and implementation / Poonam Saxena
Islamic law, feminism, and family : the reformulation of hudud in Egypt and Tunisia / Lilia Labidi
Gender and violence in Lebanese war novels / Evelyne Accad
Iron breaks, too : Israeli and Palestinian women talk about war, bereavement, and peace / Ziva Flamhaft
Peace-building and reconstruction with women : reflections on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine / Valentine M. Moghadam
Appendix : Measuring women's empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia / Valentine M. Moghadam and Lucie Senftova.

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