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Power, Politics and Development in the Arab Context: Or how can rearing chicks change patriarchy?

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The empowerment of women has become an interesting if troubling issue for debate and action in the Arab world. Since September 11 it has been difficult for Arabs to escape the simplistic and stereotypical misconstructions of their worlds, and there has been a growing resistance to ideas such as women's empowerment. Such a resistance makes for a highly frustrating and antagonistic climate to feminism and women's empowerment initiatives. Hania Sholkamy offers a personal analysis of why women in the Arab world attract attention as victims of an unfair social order and yet repel the advances of those who would work to over turn this social order to ‘save’ them.

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  • Hania Sholkamy, 2010. "Power, Politics and Development in the Arab Context: Or how can rearing chicks change patriarchy?," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 53(2), pages 254-258, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:53:y:2010:i:2:p:254-258
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    2. Linzi J. Kemp & Bridgette Rickett, 2018. "The lived experiences of foreign women: Influences on their international working lives," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(4), pages 343-360, July.
    3. Cornwall, Andrea, 2014. "Women's empowerment: what works and why?," WIDER Working Paper Series 104, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Jess Bonnan-White & Andrea Hightower & Ameena Issa, 2013. "Of couscous and occupation: a case study of women’s motivations to join and participate in Palestinian fair trade cooperatives," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 30(3), pages 337-350, September.
    5. Niyonkuru, Pascal & Barrett, Hazel, 2021. "Gender and intergenerational challenges to Women’s economic empowerment initiatives in Rwanda," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 23(C).
    6. Saskia Vossenberg, 2014. "Beyond the Critique: How Feminist Perspectives Can Feed Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries," Working Papers 2014/14, Maastricht School of Management.
    7. Andrea Cornwall, 2014. "Women's Empowerment: What Works and Why?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-104, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    8. Tatiana S Rowson & Adriana Meyer & Elizabeth Houldsworth, 2022. "Work Identity Pause and Reactivation: A Study of Cross-Domain Identity Transitions of Trailing Wives in Dubai," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 36(2), pages 235-252, April.
    9. Vinny Flaviana Hyunanda & José Palacios Ramírez & Gabriel López-Martínez & Víctor Meseguer-Sánchez, 2021. "State Ibuism and Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia: Governmentality and Political Subjectification of Chinese Benteng Women," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-18, March.
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