Organizing women :
Organizing women : formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East /
edited by Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo.
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1997.
- xv, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo -- Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : constraints, opportunities, and priorities / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph -- Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami -- Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander -- Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly -- The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz -- Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali -- From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.
9781859739105 (cloth) 9781859739150 (paper)
Women--Societies and clubs.--Middle East
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
305.420956 / C3928 Or
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo -- Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : constraints, opportunities, and priorities / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph -- Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami -- Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander -- Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly -- The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz -- Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali -- From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.
9781859739105 (cloth) 9781859739150 (paper)
Women--Societies and clubs.--Middle East
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
305.420956 / C3928 Or