Modernizing Women

Modernizing Women
Author: Valentine M. Moghadam
Publsiher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2003
Genre: Muslim women
ISBN: 1588261719

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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."

Modern Women Modernizing Men

Modern Women Modernizing Men
Author: Ruth Compton Brouwer
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0774809531

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Using the experiences of three women in colonial India, Korea and sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, this book explores how professionalism, religion and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

Modernizing Patriarchy

Modernizing Patriarchy
Author: Katja Zvan Elliott
Publsiher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781477302446

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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
Author: Valentine M. Moghadam
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 8130900785

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Modernizing Sexuality

Modernizing Sexuality
Author: Anne Esacove
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780190610838

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Moving beyond the boundaries of HIV scholarship, Modernizing Sexuality shows how Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity intersect in U.S. HIV prevention policy. In this book, Anne Esacove gathers interview, archival, and ethnographic data from the United States and Malawi to reveal failing U.S. prevention efforts. As seen in the promotion of "love matches" and women's right to "say no" to sex, modernization embedded within U.S. policy actually limits action against this widespread epidemic, and even exacerbates HIV risk among women. Instead, by illuminating the collective solutions and multiple paths of prevention used by Malawians, Esacove's analysis expertly exposes these fundamental flaws and provides direction for potentially more effective strategies. Through this analysis, Modernizing Sexuality not only reveals major U.S. health policy flaws, but asks important questions about prevention narratives, medicalizing social justice advocacy, and feminist and sexuality theories as a guide for HIV prevention policy. Closing with an alternative narrative, Esacove reimagines risk and offers readers innovative prevention strategies to guide future policy endeavors.

Modernizing Main Street

Modernizing Main Street
Author: Gabrielle Esperdy
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226218021

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An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. In Modernizing Main Street, Gabrielle Esperdy uncovers the cultural history of the hundreds of thousands of modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop owners who wanted to update their facades. Esperdy argues that these updated storefronts served a range of complex purposes, such as stimulating public consumption, extending the New Deal’s influence, reviving a stagnant construction industry, and introducing European modernist design to the everyday landscape. She goes on to show that these diverse roles are inseparable, woven together not only by the crisis of the Depression, but also by the pressures of bourgeoning consumerism. As the decade’s two major cultural forces, Esperdy concludes, consumerism and the Depression transformed the storefront from a seemingly insignificant element of the built environment into a potent site for the physical and rhetorical staging of recovery and progress.

Modernizing Unemployment Insurance to Reduce Barriers for Jobless Workers

Modernizing Unemployment Insurance to Reduce Barriers for Jobless Workers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: PSU:000066748083

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Modernizing Women

Modernizing Women
Author: Kali Nath Jha
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005
Genre: Bihar (India)
ISBN: UVA:X030164815

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Articles with reference chiefly to urban women in the state of Bihar, India.