Seeking Legitimacy - Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women''s Rights

An original study explaining why leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Comparing the Maghreb and the Middle East: 1. Women's rights: comparing the Middle East and the Maghreb; 2. Setting the stage for gender reforms; 3. Legislative and constitutional women's rights reforms in Arab countries; Part II. Case Studies: 4. Morocco; 5. Algeria; 6. Tunisia; Conclusions.

About the author

Aili Mari Tripp is Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is author of several award-winning books, including Women and Politics in Uganda (2000), Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (2010) and Women and Power in Postconflict Africa (Cambridge, 2015).

Summary

A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Product details

• Authors: Aili Mari Tripp, Aili Mari (University of Wisconsin Tripp, Tripp Aili Mari
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108442848
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44284-8
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Morocco, Middle East, Political leaders & leadership, Comparative Politics, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Algeria, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Political leaders and leadership, Pressure groups & lobbying, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions