Aili Mari Tripp (Madison University of Wisconsin)

Seeking Legitimacy

Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781108442848
• ISBN-10: 1108442846
• Artikelnr.: 56394181

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.