Empowering Women after the Arab Spring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Deconstructing Women’s Empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa

   • Marwa Shalaby

   Pages 1-18

3. Islamic Law and Gender Equality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Interrogating the “Shari’a” Excuse: Religious Reasoning, International Law, and the Struggle for Gender Equality in the Middle East

      • Ayesha S. Chaudhry

      Pages 21-44

   3. Normative Paradigms and Constraints on Equal Rights for Women in the Arab World

      • Amira El Azhary Sonbol

      Pages 45-62

4. Agency and Women’s Empowerment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. No Agency Without Grassroots Autonomy: A Framework for Evaluating Women’s Political Inclusion in Jordan, Bahrain, and Morocco

      • Bozena C. Welborne

      Pages 65-90

   3. Kin-Based Values and Attitudes Toward Gender Equality in Morocco and Egypt

      • Rahma Abdulkadir, Gail Buttorff

      Pages 91-117

   4. Explaining Egalitarian Attitudes: The Role of Interests and Exposure

      • Lindsay J. Benstead

      Pages 119-146

5. Challenge and Progress Post Arab-Spring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Syrian and Syrian Palestinian Women in Lebanon: ‘Actors of Citizenship’?

      • Dina Kiwan

      Pages 149-170

   3. Challenges Facing Women’s Political Participation Post Arab Spring: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia

      • Marwa Shalaby

      Pages 171-191

   4. Women and Democracy after the Arab Spring: Theory, Practice, and Prospects

      • Valentine M. Moghadam

      Pages 193-215

6. Back Matter

   Pages 217-226

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With studies on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, this collection presents a theoretical framework on the study of women's empowerment amid the transformations that have shaped the social and political fabrics of Arab societies.

• Empowerment
• Women
• MENA
• Agency
• Arab Spring
• Transition

• Rice University, Houston, USA

  Marwa Shalaby

• Northeastern University, Boston, USA

  Valentine M. Moghadam

Marwa Shalaby is the Fellow for the Middle East and Director of the Women's Rights in the Middle East Program at James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, USA. Her research focuses on comparative politics and research methodology, with a concentration on Middle Eastern politics, gender politics, and democratization.

Valentine M. Moghadam is Director of the International Affairs Program, and Professor of Sociology, at Northeastern University, USA. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam studied in Canada and the U.S.  She is the author of Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005, winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2009, 2013).