Modernizing Patriarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernizing Patriarchy write by Katja Žvan Elliott. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Modernizing Patriarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Morocco is hailed by academics, international NGO workers, and the media as a trailblazer in women’s rights and legal reforms. The country is considered a model for other countries in the Middle East and North African region, but has Morocco made as much progress as experts and government officials claim? In Modernizing Patriarchy, Katja Žvan Elliott examines why women’s rights advances are lauded in Morocco in theory but are often not recognized in reality, despite the efforts of both Islamist and secular feminists. In Morocco, female literacy rates remain among the lowest in the region; many women are victims of gender-based violence despite legal reforms; and girls as young as twelve are still engaged to adult men, despite numerous reforms. Based on extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork in Oued al-Ouliya, Modernizing Patriarchy offers a window into the life of Moroccan Muslim women who, though often young and educated, find it difficult to lead a dignified life in a country where they are expected to have only one destiny: that of wife and mother. Žvan Elliott exposes their struggles with modernity and the legal reforms that are supposedly ameliorating their lives. In a balanced approach, she also presents male voices and their reasons for criticizing the prevailing women’s rights discourse. Compelling and insightful, Modernizing Patriarchy exposes the rarely talked about reality of Morocco’s approach toward reform.
Modernizing Women
Modernizing Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernizing Women write by Valentine M. Moghadam. This book was released on 2003. Modernizing Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
Practice of Patriarchy
Practice of Patriarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practice of Patriarchy write by Julie Hardwick. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Practice of Patriarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how structures of authority and relations of power were mediated at a grassroots level in early modern society. To this end, Hardwick examines the households of the families of men who worked as notaries in Nantes between 1560 and 1660. Focusing on daily interactions, she explores the early modern practice of patriarchy, which she contends received new impetus in that period. Topics include making marriages, managing households, and public life in the city. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "deep" Alternative
The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "deep" Alternative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "deep" Alternative write by Claudia von Werlhof. This book was released on 2011. The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "deep" Alternative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Western civilization is the Utopia of a better and higher life on Earth. The globalization of neo-liberalism proves that this project has failed. The paradigm of «Critical Theory of Patriarchy» explains this failure and discusses alternatives. By confronting the central civilizations in history, the egalitarian, life-oriented matriarchal one, and the hierarchical, nature and life dominating, hostile patriarchal one, we see that 5000 years of patriarchy have «replaced» matriarchies and nature itself by a «progressive» counter-world of «capital». This transformation characterizes «capitalist patriarchy» including «socialism». Its demise is due to the «alchemical» destruction of the world's resources, thought of, theologically legitimized and fetishized as «creation». This violence is not recognized. Elites have, instead, begun with a new «military alchemy», treating the whole Planet as weapon of mass destruction. Hence, the «Planetary Movement for Mother Earth».
Structures of Patriarchy
Structures of Patriarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structures of Patriarchy write by Bina Agarwal. This book was released on 1988. Structures of Patriarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
